I am doing an English assignment where I have to identify the language techniques used in a feature article.
I am confused as to what technique is used in "She is pure guts and steel."
I first thought it is an idiom or a phrase but I'm not sure if that's correct
Best Answer
It's a sentence, not a phrase, but I don't think that is the answer your teacher is looking for.
"Guts" -- which literally means "intestines" but is used to mean courage -- is an idiom, as you suspected, or more exactly a figure of speech.
"Pure guts" is hyperbole, an exaggeration for rhetorical effect.
"Steel" is a metaphor ("the use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it is not, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described").
Perhaps the technique referred to is one of these.