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Identify the figurative language used in the following line from Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Theology is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be counted small. Metaphor Personification Simile Symbolism
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Identify the figurative language used in the following line from Arthur Miller's The Crucible:

Theology is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be counted small.

Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Symbolism

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not simile and not personification

might be symbolism but i'll go with metaphor

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Metaphor

This is a metaphor because two unlike things (theology and a fortress) are compared without the use of the words like or as. It is figurative language, theology is not literally a fortress but the aspect of both (no crack may be considered small) allow the two to be compared.
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