Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence:
‘pushing out new corridors and staircases like roots’.
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simile is the literary device used here
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The figure of speech in the sentence is a simile.
What is a simile?
- A simile is a literary device. It is a type of metaphor in which a subject is compared to something to analogize their similarities.
- A simile is usually preceded by words such as 'like', 'as', etc.
"Pushing out new corridors and staircases like roots".
- This sentence is from the story 'The Third Level' by Jack Finney.
- In this sentence, the speaker is describing the seemingly endless and emerging corridors of the Grand Central he keeps discovering.
- He compares the Grand Central to a tree; its corridors and staircases spread and sprout like roots of a tree.
- Thus, in this simile, the corridors and staircases have been compared to roots.
Therefore, the correct answer is a simile.
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