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PLZ help What form of figurative language is used in this sentence? The silver chain lay around his neck like a shackle waiting to be released. a.)simile b.)metaphor c.)personification
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What form of figurative language is used in this sentence?
The silver chain lay around his neck like a shackle waiting to be released.
a.)simile
b.)metaphor
c.)personification

User Hossein Azizdokht
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The answer is B. Metaphore
Here is why:

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
"“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,”
User Leandro Soares
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A simile is a comparison using like or as
So.. "like a shackle" is a simile.
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