Identify the literary device/figurative language of the following statement:
'Out in the porch's sagging floor, Leaves got up in a coil and hissed, Blindly struck at my knee and missed.'
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Simile
A metaphor is an expression that compares one thing to another. Instead of expressing that one thing is "like" another, as in a simile, a metaphor simply states that one thing is another.
