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In the poem, "We Wear the Mask," the speaker says, "We sing, but oh, the clay is vile / Beneath our feet, and long the mile." (Lines 12-13)
What type of figurative language is used in lines 12-13 above?

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personification
simile
metaphor
hyperbole

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Most likely a metaphor
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