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Help please!! What form of figurative language is used in this sentence? The frantic fire engine wailed as it whizzed by the blazing building. simile onomatopoeia hyperbole
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What form of figurative language is used in this sentence?
The frantic fire engine wailed as it whizzed by the blazing building.
simile
onomatopoeia
hyperbole

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it should be an onomatopoeia.
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It's "onomatopoeia," which uses words like sizzle, and whizz, to make a sound effect. 
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