Read the passage below and answer the question.

"I will do so, I promise you," answered Sancho, "and will keep this precept as carefully as Sunday."

What type of figurative language is exemplified in the above passage?

A. metaphor

B. simile

C. symbolism

D. personification

B. Simile

Explanation:

A simile is a figurative language that uses comparisons to describe a thing, animal or someone, with the purpose of making the writing or the speech more colorful, meaningful, memorable and interesting. We can identify a simile in a text because it uses the words "like", "as" and "as in", and others to compare, such as it appears in the passage: "and will keep this precept as carefully as Sunday". In here, Sancho is comparing the way he will keep a precept to the way "Sunday" keeps a precept while using "as."

B. simile because it uses the word 'as' when comparing 2 unlike things - precept and Sunday.