A simile is used in the line “Are frosted like a wedding-cake.”.
A simile is a comparison used with “like”, “as”, or “than”, and this line uses “like” to compare the snow-dusted tree, house, hill, and lake to a white-frosted wedding cake.
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An emotional appeal is a method of persuasion that's designed to create an emotional response. Emotion (also known as pathos or suffering in Greek) is one of the three modes of persuasion identified by Aristotle. The other two are logos, or logic, and ethos, or authority.