Question

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

I went to the pool when no one else was there. The place was quiet. The water was still, and the tiled bottom was as white and clean as a bathtub. I was timid about going in alone, so I sat on the side of the pool to wait for others. I had not been there long when in came a big bruiser of a boy, probably eighteen years old. He had thick hair on his chest. He was a beautiful physical specimen, with legs and arms that showed rippling muscles. He yelled. "Hi Skinny! 'How'd you like to be ducked? 

The figure of speech in the expression 'as white and clean as a bath tub' is ______.

पर्याय

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• irony

Answer 1

The figure of speech in the expression 'as white and clean as a bath tub' is simile.

Explanation:

As ....... as - Simile