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PLEASE HELP Read this sentence: The cars were missiles of doom, speeding down the highway. What figure of speech is used in the sentence?
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PLEASE HELP Read this sentence: The cars were missiles of doom, speeding down the highway. What figure of speech is used in the sentence?

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Metaphor

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The figure of speech would be a metaphor because it is equating missiles of doom and speeding cars, but not using the words "like" or "as", so therefore it could not be a simile only a metaphor. 
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