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Identify the literary devices used in the following lines:

(a) He sways his head from side to side,with movements like a snake.

(b) They say he cheats at cards.

(c) for he’s a friend in feline shape – 

(d) He’s outwardly respectable (they say he cheats at cards) 

(e) Just control their operations ; the Napoleon of Crime

(f) He always has an alibi and one or two to spare  

(g) Or engaged in doing a complicated long division sums 

(h) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat –

(i) Just controls their operations the Napoleon or crime 

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(a) simile

(b) Personification

(c)  Personification 

(d) personification (The animal is attributed to human qualities)

(e) Personification 

(f) Personification 

(g) Personification 

(h) Personification

(i) metaphor

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