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Decide what type of descriptive language is used in each example.

And his father, who was puro Mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy."
The phrase sullen as a toad is an example of a

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the phrase "sullen as a toad" is an example of a simile. similes compare two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
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