Question

They continued to ply at their usual occupations, some arriving full freighted into port, others sallying forth on new expeditions, like so many merchantmen in a money making metropolis, little suspicious of impending bankruptcy and downfall.

This sentence from the passage contains an example of a/an
A) hyperbole.
B) metaphor.
C) onomatopoeia.
D) simile.

Answer 1

D. Simile

Step-by-step explanation:

In a simile it would us like or as. and for this article you could see that the sentence was the word like.

Answer 2

Answer: The answer is simile .

Step-by-step explanation:

Because it uses the word LIKE

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