Homework Help: Literature

Posted by mysterychicken on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 6:35am.

5. The form of figurative language that uses LIKE, AS, THAN, or RESEMBLES to compare two dissimilar thing is
a. a simile
b. a direct metaphor
c. an implied metaphor
d. personification
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-MC

Literature - Writeacher, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 8:45am
Simile is closest. Similes use "like" or "as," but I've never seen any similes that use "than" or "resembles."
Literature - Writeacher, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:18am
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/terms/

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html

http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/literary_elements.htm

http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/area/literature/Terms/

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