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9 March, 16:19

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry.

"They look like white elephants," she said.

What type of figurative language is used in the passage above?

alliteration

metaphor

personification

simile

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  1. 9 March, 19:21
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    Simile. "They look like white elephants" is a simile because it is a comparison using the word like. A metaphor would say something is something else, alliteration is the repetition of a beginning sound, and personification gives something human-like characteristics.
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