Which literary device has Emily Dickinson used in these lines? How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! metaphor alliteration simile allusion

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Which literary device has Emily Dickinson used in these lines?

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

metaphor

alliteration

simile

allusion

English
high-school

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Answer:

simile

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a simile uses the words like and as

Nsk answered Feb 6, 2020

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I believe she used a simile.

Idobr answered Feb 10, 2020

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