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"Which literary device is used in this quote? ""All I could think was that the moon looked like a great salty tear hung in the sky"" (Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns) "

Simile
Oxymoron
Epithet
Onomatopoeia

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The literary device used in the quote is Simile. A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using the words "like" or "as." In this case, the moon is being compared to a "great salty tear" using "like."

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