angelinajaylyn84 angelinajaylyn84
  • 14-10-2020
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What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence?
"machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night. . .like dogs"

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trinitymahan trinitymahan
  • 21-10-2020

Answer:

simile!!!!!

Explanation: machine gun rifles aren't like dogs!!! so comparing to dogs would be a simile because a simile is a comparison between to things using like or as. and they are using like in the sentence because tey are comparing a dog to machine guns and rifles.

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