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What type of figurative language is being used in the following sentence?

The test was a piece of cake.

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They used idiom.

Piece of cake = easy
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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Put a like in there.

The test was easy like a piece of cake.

What you have is a metaphor comparing an easy test to a piece of cake.

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