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Which figure of speech is used in the following excerpt from the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare? And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail
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Which figure of speech is used in the following excerpt from the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare?

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.

personification
onomatopoeia***
metaphor
simile

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Simile because it uses like or as.
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