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11) Excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. Which figure of speech does the author use in to compare slaves to horses? A) a simile B) a metaphor C) a hyperbole D) personification

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A

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Answer:

a) Simile

Step-by-step explanation:

Because it is comparing using as

"slaves know as little of their ages AS horses know of theirs"

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