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What type of figurative language is this but water from a thousand rentals
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Most likely it’s a metaphor (with hyperbolic imagery).
Why:
- It doesn’t use like or as, so it isn’t a simile. Instead it seems to equate something implicitly with “water from a thousand rentals,” which is the hallmark of a metaphor.
- “A thousand rentals” is an obvious exaggeration, so the phrase also reads as hyperbole.
- It creates a sensory picture (wetness, dilution, transience), so it functions as vivid imagery.
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Why:
- It doesn’t use like or as, so it isn’t a simile. Instead it seems to equate something implicitly with “water from a thousand rentals,” which is the hallmark of a metaphor.
- “A thousand rentals” is an obvious exaggeration, so the phrase also reads as hyperbole.
- It creates a sensory picture (wetness, dilution, transience), so it functions as vivid imagery.
If you paste the whole line or a few surrounding lines I can confirm or refine the identification.
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