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Read these lines from the poem “Dreams,” by Langston Hughes. Which figure of speech is used in the bold line of the poem? LIFE IS A BROKEN-WINGED BIRD That cannot fly. A. allite…

Read these lines from the poem “Dreams,” by Langston Hughes. Which figure of speech is used in the bold line of the poem? LIFE IS A BROKEN-WINGED BIRD That cannot fly. A. allite…
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Read these lines from the poem “Dreams,” by Langston Hughes.

Which figure of speech is used in the bold line of the poem?

LIFE IS A BROKEN-WINGED BIRD
That cannot fly.

A.
alliteration

B.
metaphor

C.
simile

D.
onomatopoeia

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User Gepser Hoil
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it is a Metaphor. The reason this is a metaphor is because it does not use like or as, or any of the other reasons to be an onomatopoeia, or an alliteration.
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the answer is b-metaphor
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