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What kind of figurative language is being used in the following sentence? Samuel sat as still as a sculpture in a wax museum while the wasp floated around him, trying to locate the sweet scented cake on
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What kind of figurative language is being used in the following sentence? Samuel sat as still as a sculpture in a wax museum while the wasp floated around him, trying to locate the sweet scented cake on the table.
a) simile
b) no figurative language
c)personification
d)metaphor
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the figurative used in the sentence is
simile
. similes compare two varied object/subjects using "like" or "as". t
he subject, samuel, is being compared to a statue using the word "as", therefore it is a simile.
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