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What type of figurate language is shown? "In surprise and consternation, the emigrants gazed at its blank face, then toward the dreary waste beyond. Presently, my mother knelt before it and began searching for fragments of paper, which she believed crows had wantonly pecked off and dropped to the ground. "

A. metaphor
B. personification
C. allusion
D. hyperbole

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A: Metaphor it talks as though it is something, it uses a comparison without using like or as.
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