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A commercial that compares dry skin to a desert is using which literary device? A. alliteration B. irony C. metaphorical language D. literal language E. assonance

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A commercial that compares dry skin to a desert is using which literary device? A. alliteration B. irony C. metaphorical language D. literal language E. assonance

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The commercial is using C. metaphorical language. This is because it is comparing two unlike things (dry skin and a desert) in a figurative way, not a literal one. Metaphors are a type of figurative language, hence the answer is C. metaphorical language.

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