Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.

What figure of speech is the underlined text in the passage?

allegory

metaphor

personification

simile

This is a metaphor. It is comparing the contract the members of society have with each other to a joint-stock company, as well as someone eating bread.

It is not telling a story with a moral so it is not an allegory.

It is not a personification because no inanimate object has been given person-like features.

It is not a simile because while it is a comparison, it did not use like or as.