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What literary device is used in these lines: “The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil” A)metaphor B)Oxymoron C)paradox D)simile
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What literary device is used in these lines:

“The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures; tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil”

A)metaphor
B)Oxymoron
C)paradox
D)simile

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Answer:

I think its simile

Step-by-step explanation:

cause sleeping and dead are pictures which could mean no harm or not thinking the dead are people anymore.

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