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What literary device does

Washington Irving use in the
following lines from "The
Devil and Tom Walker"?
Paragraph 5: At length he
arrived at a firm piece of
ground, which ran like a
peninsula into the deep
bosom of the swamp.
A. simile
B. aphorism
C. foreshadowing

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A. simile. uses like
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