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What type of figurative language is emily of course had changed she met me at the door s she met you she was a shell burned out by one fierce moment of fire

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What you described here is a metaphor. She is not really a shell burned out by one fierce moment of fire, she is Emily, a human being, however, a metaphor is used to make emphasize the statement and make it more poetic.

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