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Read this excerpt from "The Unseen Values." We can no longer take the risk of giving much support to the scoffers—to that breed of unimaginative souls who
thought Robert Fulton was a fool for harnessing a paddlewheel to a boiler, who thought Henry Ford was a fool for
putting an internal combustion engine on wheels, who thought Samuel Langley was a fool for designing a
contraption to fly through the air.
The reference to Henry Ford in the excerpt above is an example of which figurative language technique?
imagery
O allusion
simile
O metaphor

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