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Which figure of speech is used in the bolded lines in the following excerpt from this poem by langston hughes?

dreams

hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
**life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly.**

a. metaphor
b. alliteration
c. simile
d. onomatopoeia

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