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In the chapter entitled "American Address of Inside Out and Back Again, Thanhha Lai writes:

Mothor's face crinklos
like paper on fire.
She tells Brother Quang
to clamp shut his mouth.
What literary device doos Lai use in this passage to help convey how Mother feels?
O hyperbole
O onomatopoeia
O a simile
O personification

User Mark Byers
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A simile because they are comparing the mothors face crinklos using like or as and compares it to paper on fire
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