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OpenStudy (drii_salsa):

Which literary device has Emily wingspaninson used in these lines? How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! metaphor alliteration simile allusion

OpenStudy (anonymous):

A metaphor makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

A simile compares two things using the words like or as.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Lastly, allusion is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

From the definitions I gave you, can you answer your question now ?

OpenStudy (drii_salsa):

a simile cause it says like a frog? @candiimonstaa

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Yes that's what i was thinking @Drii_salsa

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