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Which of these quotes is NOT an example of a simile?

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O "sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar" (Paragraph 1)
O
"he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not
unequal to walking through a graveyard" (Paragraph 2)
O "it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a Christmas tree inside" (Paragraph 4)
"his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in midcountry" (Paragraph 5)

User Cheekujha
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Answer:

B) "he would see cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard"

Step-by-step explanation:

You can always tell if something is a similie if it uses the words "like" or "as." Option B is the only sentence that does not use "like" or "as."

User Vu Nguyen
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Answer:

this one

"he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not

Step-by-step explanation:

because its the only one not comparing two things using like or as.

User Ryan Nelson
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