"But still, like air, I'll rise."
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that is wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Which literary device has been used in the following line?
"But still, like air, I'll rise."
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Correct answer: (B) Simile
Explanation
The speaker compares her rising to air using the word 'like', which makes it a simile.