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OpenStudy (anonymous):

he quotation is an example of a simile. Explain why. "But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes."

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I know that simile is a figure of speech and that it compares two things but I'm not sure what two things it's comparing.

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