The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

Read this sentence. Dad: “It’s just like this great song I heard a couple of miles back, 'Big Daddy was a Truck-Drivin’ Man!'” Which literary device is used in this sentence?

A) personification
or
B) assonance
or
C) metaphor
or
D) onomatopoeia
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C) metaphor

In context, I would have said simile, as the word "like" is used. Simile, however, is not one of your answer choices.