What type of figurative language expresses similarities between two unlike things, but does not use the words like or as?

idiom
metaphor
irony
simile

In chapter 34 of the awakening, how does the author reveal the contrast between arobin’s and robert’s characters? through the dialogue the two men have in the parlor by the different ways edna responds to them by describing them with contrasting language by placing them in opposite corners of the parlor

Clara claimed that she made her decision on her own and that it was totally unexpected. which best replaces the underlined word in this sentence? a. spontaneous b. planned c. likely d. fast

Determine the rhyme scheme of the following poem by elizabeth barrett browning. xxiii is it indeed so? if i lay here dead, wouldst thou miss any life in losing mine? and would the sun for thee more coldly shine because of grave-damps falling round my head? i marvelled, my beloved, when i read thy thought so in the letter. i am thine— but . . so much to thee? can i pour thy wine while my hands tremble? then my soul, instead of dreams of death, resumes life's lower range. then, love me, love! look on me—breathe on me! as brighter ladies do not count it strange, for love, to give up acres and degree, i yield the grave for thy sake, and exchange my near sweet view of heaven, for earth with thee!