Read the excerpt below and answer the question. the girl was looking off at the line of hills. they were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry. "they look like white elephants," she said. what type of figurative language is used in the passage above? alliteration metaphor personification simile

Simile. "They look like white elephants" is a simile because it is a comparison using the word like. A metaphor would say something is something else, alliteration is the repetition of a beginning sound, and personification gives something human-like characteristics.

Both men foresaw the us as a great future power. however, they differed on the path the nation was to follow in achieving this role. while jefferson preferred an agrarian nation, hamilton favored an industrial and business intensive nation. as such, jefferson detested hamilton's idea of a strong federal government. jefferson wanted the bulk of power to rest with the states. these major views were behind polarizing washington's cabinet into two distinct factions. hamilton's followers became known as federalists and jefferson's democratic-republicans.