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"The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns." What type of figurative language is used? Explain. What does this sentence mean?

"The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns." What type of figurative language is used? Explain. What does this sentence mean?
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"The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns." What type of figurative language

is used? Explain. What does this sentence mean?

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An ‘idiom’, I believe, is the type of figurative language used. An idiom is “an expression whose meaning is different from the meaning of its individual words.” Which means that the phrase above means something other than what is stated.
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