Question

As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine, I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make." Identify the literary device​

Answer 1

Simile (As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine),alliteration (move,me mechanically, machine)

Answer 2

The literary devices used in the above sentence are:

Simile: it is a word or phase that compares one thing with another using words "like" or "as".

Eg: as her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine.

Alliteration: Alliteration is a figure of speech in which the same sound repeats in a group of words

Eg: move mechanically

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