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3. Read this sentence from the

folktale.
The sky hung above him like a gray
blanket, and no matter how long he
looked up, he could not see the sun.
Which literary element does the
sentence contain?
A simile
B parody
Callegory
D
flashback

User Lachlan Dowding
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It uses a similie
Using the words “like or as” is a similie “the sky hung above him LIKE a gray blanket”
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