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SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER ITS DUE TODAYY!! But everything else was motionless, dry as a biscuit, on the brink of burning, hoarding final reservoirs of sap, trying to hold out till the rain returned... What
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SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER ITS DUE TODAYY!!

But everything else was motionless, dry as a biscuit, on the brink of burning, hoarding final reservoirs of sap, trying to hold out till the rain returned...

What type of figurative language is found in the above passage?

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THATS HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH?

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Answer:

It looks like a simile is used, "dry as a biscuit,". It's comparing how dry something is to how dry a biscuit is.

I'm not sure about the rest, because I don't have context clues, but it looks like that's the only figurative language.

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