Identify the sample sentence below that contains a simile (taken from the text).
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“This advance of the enemy had seemed to the youth like a ruthless hunting.”
“This advance of the enemy had seemed to the youth like a ruthless hunting.”
“He wished that it [his rifle] was an engine of annihilating power.”
“He wished that it [his rifle] was an engine of annihilating power.”
“The tormentors were flies sucking insolently at his blood…”
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“The tormentors were flies sucking insolently at his blood…”
is this correct
Yes, that is correct. The sentence "The tormentors were flies sucking insolently at his blood..." contains a simile.
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