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Which of the following passages from Thoreau's Walden contains a metaphor or an extended metaphor (a figure of speech that compares two unlike things or ideas without using "like" or "as")? A. Sec 12: Men frequently say to me, "I should think you would feel lonesome down there... B. Sec 11: ...yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled. C. Sec 10: The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things.​

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Answer: B. Sec 11: ...yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled.

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