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What figurative language is used here? What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;
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What figurative language is used here?

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;

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Metaphor, “by any other name would smell ‘AS’ sweet, usually metaphors have the word as, so example: It smelled so bad as if somebody threw skunk spray.
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Metaphor

Step-by-step explanation:

It compares a persons name to the rose. It doesn't mean nothing.

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