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Which literary device is used in this sentence from James Joyce’s “Araby”? But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
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Which literary device is used in this sentence from James Joyce’s “Araby”?

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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simile

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Whenever someone uses a literary device and uses the words like or as, you know it is a simile.

It is a simile
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