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Read the following text:

As his classmates teased him about his new glasses, his
heart was a stone.
Which poetic device is used here?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Rhyme
D. Personification

User Peter Foti
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A metaphor because the boy’s heart is called a stone, but his heart wasn’t literally stone. It just means that the boy was hurt because of his classmates’ teasing.
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Answer:

metaphor yw bc a simile has like or as

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