9. Kennedy's story about the Irish kids and their hats is an example of which type of figurative language?
A. sensory imagery
B. ...an extended METAPHOR
C. ...a SIMILE comparing the garden wall to space
D. ...an idiom
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(you didn't attach a copy of the poem, but i'm answering as best as i can)

since a simile compares two unlike things using like or as, it kind of gives an item the ability to do something it can't.

example: "the player was like a tiger on the field"

in this sentence, the simile conveys the idea that the player was fast and strong, like a tiger.

d. it compares the speaker reflection to a predatory bird that haunts the speaker