English, 27.03.2020 05:28 bianca7183

What figurative language is used in the following sentence?

“The wind fanned the fire and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames, which clung to it and licked it with their forked and destroying tongues”

Simile

Paradox

Personification

Hyperbole

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What figurative language is used in the following sentence?

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