QUESTION 1
“Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.”

Question: What type of figurative language is being used in this sentence?

Idiom

Oxymoron

Simile

Metaphor

QUESTION 2
Jem tells Scout that when he retrieved his pants from the Radleys’, “They were folded across the fence like they were expectin’ me.”

What type of figurative language is being used here?

Simile and metaphor

Metaphor and hyperbole

Simile and personification

Metaphor and personification