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Identify the figure of speech used in the following line from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:

“I could see that—but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan.”

A.
personification
B.
simile
C.
metaphor
D.
hyperbole

1 Answer

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B. simile because of the word "like".

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