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Ket [755]
3 years ago
6

They continued to ply at their usual occupations, some arriving full freighted into port, others sallying forth on new expeditio

ns, like so many merchantmen in a money making metropolis, little suspicious of impending bankruptcy and downfall.
This sentence from the passage contains an example of a/an
A) hyperbole.
B) metaphor.
C) onomatopoeia.
D) simile.
English
2 answers:
____ [38]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

D. Simile

Explanation:

In a simile it would us like or as. and for this article you could see that the sentence was the word <u>like.</u>

Pachacha [2.7K]3 years ago
4 0

Answer: The answer is simile .

Explanation:

Because it uses the word LIKE

-your welcome ✌️❤️

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