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They continued to ply at their usual occupations, some arriving full freighted into port, others sallying forth on new expeditions, like so many merchantmen in a money making metropolis, little suspicious of impending bankruptcy and downfall.

This sentence from the passage contains an example of a/an
A) hyperbole.
B) metaphor.
C) onomatopoeia.
D) simile.

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The answer is: B) Metaphor
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