Question

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.

Answer 1

I believe it's using metaphor

Answer 2

Metaphor

Step-by-step explanation:

This sentence is comparing the public to pigs without using words like "as" or "like", which would make it a simile, most likely. In this case, since there's no such use of the mentioned words, this fits into the definition of a metaphor:

"a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable."