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The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry.

"They look like white elephants," she said.
What type of figurative language is used in the passage above?
O alliteration
O metaphor
O personification
Osimile

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Well there are only two possible answers that being alliteration and simile, i guess you will have to be the judge of that, but I will give you their definitions

simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

alliteration:

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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Answer: Simile
Explanation: the girl is comparing the hills to white elephants and uses the word like
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