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GCSE English Practice Test: Metaphors - Stating That One Thing Is Something Else — Flashcards

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A metaphor states that one thing is something else. 

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'Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle, / Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. / Thirty years now I have laboured / To dredge the silt from your throat'
Sylvia Plath uses which metaphor in these lines from her poem, 'The Colossus'?
The throat of the person being addressed is a blocked river channel
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