Her fingers felt like a dead person's, like an old peach I once found in the back of the refrigerator; the skin just slid off the meat when I picked it up. --- Amy Tan, &qu…

Question

Her fingers felt like a dead person's, like an old peach I once found in the back of the refrigerator; the skin just slid off the meat when I picked it up. --- Amy Tan, "Two Kinds" In the Amy Tan quote above, what type of figurative speech does the author use?

Answer 1

Simile

Step-by-step explanation:

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things using the word 'like' or 'as'.