Read the excerpt below and answer the question. the girl was looking off at the line of hills. they were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry. "they look like white elephants," she said. what type of figurative language is used in the passage above? alliteration metaphor personification simile

Figurative language refers to figures of speech that are used to embellish language and help the reader to have a better understanding of the message.  A simile is a figure of speech that establishes a comparison between two elements using words of comparison such as like. In this passage, the type of figurative language used is a simile that compares the hills to white elephants in the following line: "They look like white elephants".

connections  to the  book night by elie wiesel.   elie wiesel  is a holocaust survivor. as a young, jewish boy he was taken from his home with his family by the nazis. he was taken because he is jewish.