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Choose the type of literary device being used in the example below.

The doctor was as stern as a prison guard.

exaggeration
simile
imagery
none of these

User JohnEye
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Answer:

Simile

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a simile because it is using words like and as.

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Answer:

simile

Step-by-step explanation:

it uses like or as to compare things

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