The government protects the rights of inventors by issuing

The government protects the rights of inventors by issuing PATENTS.

Patents are exclusive rights which are issued by the government of the inventor's government. These rights are for a limited time period, during which the inventor gives a detailed public disclosure of his/her invention.

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

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