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Question
Read the poem and find the line for the following poetic device or write your own example.
Simile.
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Solution
- Simile:
Nil - Own Example:
The flowers were as soft as thoughts of budding love.
You are soft as the nesting dove.
She hung her head like a dying flower.
Her eyes are like the eyes of statues.
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