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Read these lines from the poem “Dreams,” by Langston Hughes. Which figure of speech is used in the bold line of the poem? LIFE IS A BROKEN-WINGED BIRD That cannot fly. A. alliteration B. metaphor C. simile
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Read these lines from the poem “Dreams,” by Langston Hughes.

Which figure of speech is used in the bold line of the poem?

LIFE IS A BROKEN-WINGED BIRD
That cannot fly.

A.
alliteration

B.
metaphor

C.
simile

D.
onomatopoeia

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it is a Metaphor. The reason this is a metaphor is because it does not use like or as, or any of the other reasons to be an onomatopoeia, or an alliteration.
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the answer is b-metaphor
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