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Which excerpt from the poem "Girl Powdering Her Neck” by Cathy Song is an example of a simile?

“her legs folded beneath her / as she sits on a buckwheat pillow”
“Morning begins the ritual / wheel of the body”
“The peach-dyed kimono / patterned with maple leaves”
“She dips a corner of her sleeve / like a brush into water”

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
“She dips a corner of her sleeve / like a brush into water” — it uses "like" to compare the sleeve to a brush, which is a simile.