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Paraphin [41]
4 years ago
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Read this excerpt from “The Most Dangerous Game” and answer the question. His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial c

hateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows. In about one hundred words, explain the figurative language in the italicized section of the passage above. What type of figurative language is it? In what ways does it function?
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1 answer:
viktelen [127]4 years ago
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This excerpt is using personification. Personification is giving human traits or characteristics to something that is non human. The sea does not actually have lips but the author writes "the sea licked its greedy lips..". 
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