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Orlov [11]
3 years ago
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Read the following sentence. The dog was as fast as a rocket. What literary device is featured in this sentence? A. simile B. on

omatopoeia C. metaphor D. personification
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2 answers:
Ainat [17]3 years ago
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The answer is simile because similes uses the word as
example: That man ran as fast as a roadrunner.
docker41 [41]3 years ago
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The answer is A, because the dog and the rocket was compared using like or as.

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