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what type of figurative language is "The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket."

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This is a metaphor, because it compares certain things to others without using the words “like” or “as”. The public is compared to swine and advertising is compared to the rattling of a stick.
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the public are swine That is a metaphor because it is comparing the public to pics without using like and or as.
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