The following quote is an example of what figurative language? "he now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold." a. hyperbole b. metaphor c. personification d. simile

the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,