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name the literary term used in the following sentence -- "big and solid as twelve pounds of mashed potatoes in an eight-pound bag. if you dressed me up in a orange and red sweater, you could ride me around the world in eight days"

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Simile- The sentence compared the subject with twelve pounds of potatoes in an eight-pound bag using “as”
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