The type of figurative language used in the sentence is metaphor. The comparison of the pond to a "silvery mirror" is a metaphor, as it suggests that the pond is reflecting the moonlight like a mirror would, without using "like" or "as," which would indicate a simile.
The pond was so still that it looked like a silvery mirror under the moonlit sky.
Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence?
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imaginative
imaginative
metaphor
metaphor
simile
simile
literal
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