Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. hope I helped please hit that helped button!
J.K. Rowling is the author of Harry Potter
(that's what she is known for)
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Mr. Van Daan is stealing food, thus, Mrs. Frank wants them to leave the annex.
The sentences that use rhetorical devices are:
C) Outside, the torrential rain poured like a waterfall
E) Saving the orangutans is a Herculean task for conservationists.
The first sentence uses simile, and the second one a metaphor/allusion.