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"Why, for weeks he was as brittle as a bamboo before it bursts into a flame!" What type of figurative language is demonstrated in this passage?
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"Why, for weeks he was as brittle as a bamboo before it bursts into a flame!" What type of figurative language is demonstrated in this passage?

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The figurative language used in this passage is a simile, because of the use of "___ as a ___". 
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A simile is used comparing a character to bamboo before it bursts into a flame.
Similes are comparisons that use the word like or as.
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