Question

The following lines from "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop are an example of what type of figurative language?

Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper...

Hyperbole

Simile

Personification

Metaphor

Answer 1

It would be simile because it uses "like" in the phrase. Similes are when the author compares something using "like" or "as". "his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper"