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

The figurative language used in the above sentence is METAPHOR.

Metaphor is a figure of speech comparing two unrelated objects for rhetorical effects.

The public is compared with swine or pig.

Advertising is compared with the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.