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Feb 17th, 11:59 PM

The sentence "The world is your oyster until the next high school

drop out takes it from you by gun point" exemplifies the following

rhetorical technique:

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a

Figurative Language (Simile)

b Synonym

c

Figurative Language (Metaphor)

d

Repetition (Assonance)

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c Figurative Language (Metaphor)

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The sentence is an example of a metaphor, which is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as...