Read the excerpt below and answer the question. At the sight of that gorgeous machine, I felt as if a dozen awls were stabbing m

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Read the excerpt below and answer the question. At the sight of that gorgeous machine, I felt as if a dozen awls were stabbing m

y heart. What best describes the literary device employed in this excerpt from Ha Jin’s “The Bane of the Internet”? A. metaphor B. personification C. simile D. symbol

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horrorfan [7] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-16T10:00:05+03:00

I would say C: Simile because this compares the feeling of seeing the machine to being stabbed by a dozen awls. Similes use like or as to compare two different objects, so that is what leads me to believe this. It cannot be a symbol, because that does not represent anything. It cannot be personification because it does not take a nonliving object and give it human features. I would say that's it a metaphor, but it uses as, so I firmly believe that it is a simile..

Ghella [55] · Answer 2 · 2022-03-16T12:09:23+03:00

Ghella [55]3 years ago

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Answer:

C. A similie

Explanation: similie's use the words like or as. That is how you can tell