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Is "echoes of the pentagram" a simile or a metaphor?
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Neither. The noun echo means:

A repetition or an imitation; e.g. a fashion that is an echo of an earlier style.

A remnant or vestige; e.g., found echoes of past civilizations while examining artifacts in the Middle East.

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So what type of figure of speech is it then? Please, tell me the answer.
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Possibly synesthesia, a figure of speech in which one sensory experience is described in terms of another. Here, echoes (sound) and pentagram (sight).
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sweetheart i think that the "echoes of the pentagram" is a echoes (but i'm not sure)
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Well okay, I guess this helped but I had hoped it was a metaphor so that I could use it for my report. At least I won't get points taken off on my report.
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