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expeople1 [14]
2 years ago
15

Explain the meaning of the simile in the quote, “... like some unemployed janitor who'd gone to reno and won a million-dollar ja

ckpot.”
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1 answer:
Nina [5.8K]2 years ago
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A simile is a figure of speech where you use words such as <u>like</u> or <u>as</u> to show a comparison between two or more things.
Here, the simile "like some unemployed janitor who'd gone to Reno and won a million-dollar jackpot" is used to denote happiness and ecstasy at winning something unexpectedly, which happened to the hunter and his 'trophy" in the novel.
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