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Identify the literary device/figurative language of the following statement: 'Out in the porch's sagging floor, Leaves got up in a coil and hissed, Blindly struck at my knee and missed.' Hyperbole Metaphor
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Identify the literary device/figurative language of the following statement:

'Out in the porch's sagging floor, Leaves got up in a coil and hissed, Blindly struck at my knee and missed.'
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Simile

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Answer:

Metaphor

Step-by-step explanation:

Blindly struck at my knee and missed

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Answer:

b) Metaphor

Step-by-step explanation:

A metaphor is an expression that compares one thing to another. Instead of expressing that one thing is "like" another, as in a simile, a metaphor simply states that one thing is another.

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