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Pain, A Formal Feeling

Comes
y Emily Dickinson
What figure of speech does
Dickinson use in the following
excerpt from "After Great
Pain, A Formal Feeling
Comes"?
n, a formal feeling comes -
ceremonious, like Tombs
questions 'was it He, that
or Centuries before?
sit ceremonious
hanical, go round -
Air, or Ought'
own,
entment, like a stone -
ir of Lead
if outlived,
rsons, recollect the Snow -
then Stupor - then the
A. repetition of words or phrases
B. simile - comparison of unlike things
using "as" or "like"
C. metaphor - comparison of unlike things
D. alliteration - repetition of beginning
consonant SOUNDS

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B. simile
“like Tombs” and “like a stone”
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