What literary term is used in the quote?

Question

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What literary term is used in the phrase "...a packet of bitterness to grow in your house and to flower, some day"?

Answer 1

extended metaphor

Answer 2

analogy? because it doesn't really compare

Answer 3

It's metaphor--a comparison that does not use 'like' or 'as'.  Your quote compares an emotion, bitterness, to a plant.

Answer 4

its personification because it is an inatimate object doing something human.  

Answer 5

extended metaphor