Question

but mom, i really need a new cell phone! i cant even take pictures with this one. it was probably made in the stone age. it doesnt have to be a smartphone, just something i can text with. please? what type of figurative language is featured in this passage?

Explanation:

A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. In the sentence "It was probably made in the stone age", the old cell phone is compared to something from the stone age (a very long - ago time) to imply that it is extremely old. It is not a literal statement (the phone wasn't actually made in the stone age), so it is a metaphor. An idiom is a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., "kick the bucket" meaning "die"). Hyperbole is extreme exaggeration (e.g., "I've told you a million times"). Personification is giving human qualities to non - human things (e.g., "The wind whispered"). Since the example is a comparison (phone = old as stone - age item), it is a metaphor.

Answer:

B. Metaphor