Read the excerpt below and answer the question. but the real remained, – the real, like the flat, bare, oozy tide-.130) the excerpt above is an example of hyperbole a simile a metaphor a motif

This excerpt comes from the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in which she depicts the reality of slavery , but with the hope that faith can bring.  

Question: The excerpt above is an example of .

a simile  

A simile is a figure of speech in which things are compared. Here the real is compared to the flat , bare , oozy tide-mud  

Explanation:

Simile is a rhetorical figure which uses comparative resources between literary terms. Like this example, when says like the flat, bare, oozy tide-mud...

So, whenever comparative is applied, simile is your rhetorical figure there.

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the answer is: tabard inn, southwark.

in "the canterbury tales," by geoffrey chaucer, the twenty-nine diverse group of pilgrims is staying at a tavern in southwark, london, as they are traveling to canterbury. they wish to visit the relics of saint thomas becket in canterbury   cathedral in order to him for his when they underwent necessities.