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What type of figure of speech is used in the sentence?

And it seemed to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind, -Elton John

personification
simile
hyperbole
metaphor

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Answer: Simile

Step-by-step explanation:

A simile is comparing a person to an object but not referring to the person as the object. It utilizes words such as "like" to separate the person from the object and say the two are similar, but not the same.

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