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"The house crackled and roared like a giant's funeral pyre.” What kind of

figurative language is this?

Btw is the night gardener story

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The author is using a simile to compare the house to a giants funeral pyre using “like”, it’s also using personification when it says the house “crackled and roared” as its giving living characteristics to an inatinate object.

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