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Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence from George Orwell’s novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying? The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket. flashback oxymoron euphemism metaphor

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The public are swine..." That is a metaphor because it is comparing the public to pics w/o using 'like' or 'as'.
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the answer is euphism
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