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Which of the following sentences uses figurative language? My grandparents recently moved into a retirement home. The lawn needs to be mowed soon. It was so hot, it felt like an oven outside. My shoes came untied in the middle of the game.

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It was so hot, it felt like an oven outside

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"It was so hot, it felt like an oven outside" is the only sentence that uses figurative language, since of course it is not literally true that it felt like an oven outside--that's an exaggeration.
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