Select the correct answer. Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence from George Orwell’s novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying?

The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.

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flashback
B.
oxymoron
C.
euphemism
D.
metaphor
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metaphor

Explanation:

A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. The author is directly referring to the public as swine by using the word "are". The author is also directly referring to advertising as the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket, by using the word "is"

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i would say the correct answer is not concrete.