Identify the literary devices used in the sentences below. No further explanation is required. The men at the windows had not yet swooped into the Hall, like birds of prey from their high perches. (Book the Second, Chapter XXII)
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The Simile is the literary device that has been employed in the given sentences from 'A Tale of Two Cities.'
Explanation:
- A Simile is demonstrated as one of the most commonly employed literary devices in which the author establishes a comparison between two distinct things using 'as' or 'like.'
- It is primarily employed to explain or clarify a particular idea by comparing it to another seemingly unassociated thing.
- In the given sentences, the author employs 'simile' which is clearly reflected through the comparison of men's swooping with 'birds of prey' by using 'like.'
- In the next sentence 'every green ...miserable people' also, simile has been used to compare the blades of grass and leaf with poor and miserable people by using 'as.'
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