Question

Review the passage from "Gumption."

"Well, that made old man Oyster mad as hell. He said, 'Drat it, I'm a citizen! Is that what WPA is for--to bring me more discrimination than what is?'"

Which best identifies and interprets the use of figurative language in the passage?
A: It is a metaphor; it creates an image of the two men as battered and downcast.
B: It is a simile; it allows the reader to see the story from the narrator's point of view.
C: It is a metaphor; it shows that the men are eager workers.
D: It is a simile; it illustrates Oyster's anger in seeing others express prejudice towards his son.

Answer 1

D because it says that he was mad AS hell. A simile uses like or as. 

Answer 2

The simile is a type of figurative language that makes use of comparison words to establish a comparison among two events, animals, objects or people. Some comparison words are like or as. In this case, there is a simile which we can identify with the word as, and it is comparing Oyster's anger to hell. For this reason, the correct answer is D.