What poetic device does Washington Irving use in the following lines from "The Devil and...

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What poetic device does Washington Irving use in the following lines from "The Devil and Tom Walker"? Paragraph 4:...and the water- snake, where the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half- drowned, half-rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire. A. simile - a comparison between two seemingly unlike things containing the words "like" or "as" B. repetition C. metaphor - a comparison between two seemingly unlike things

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