No.
The mere presence of "as" or "like" does not automatically indicate simile.
Look up the four possibilities here:
http://literary-devices.com/
Let me know what you decide.
What type of figurative language appears in the following sentence?
The computer moaned and groaned as it rendered the large video file.
A. Simile <--- my answer
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Symbol
I chose A because the sentence uses "as", but I'm not sure that correct.
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@Writeacher so it would be personification? The computer is non-human making human noises?
B. Personification because the computer is making human noises.
um that's C. personification
metaphor
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