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English, 06.11.2019 09:31, cxttiemsp021

what figure of speech is twain using in the following quotation from "what stumped the bluejays"?

"well, you're a long hole, and a deep hole, and a mighty singular hold altogether -- but i've started in to fill you, and i will fill you, if it takes a hundred years! "

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Twain's lively writing contains many examples of figures of speech; that is, he uses words in an unusual and imaginative way to give vivid pictures. the simile is one figure of speech that compares one thing to another, using the words like or as. when twain writes, "his underjaw would stick out like the fo'castle of a steamboat," he is using a simile. familiar expressions such as "as cool as a cucumber," "spread like wildfire," and "cross as a bear" are all similes. find two other similes in twain's story.

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English, 23.08.2019 19:20, rayisaiah3

Twain's lively writing contains many examples of figures of speech; that is, he uses words in an unusual and imaginative way to give vivid pictures. the simile is one figure of speech that compares one thing to another, using the words like or as. when twain writes, "his underjaw would stick out like the fo'castle of a steamboat," he is using a simile. familiar expressions such as "as cool as a cucumber," "spread like wildfire," and "cross as a bear" are all similes. find two other similes in twain's story

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