Read the lines from Between Words. We could go Under trees and moons, With the stars tearing Like mouths in the night sky, And we’ll never arrive. Which poetic element is used in these lines?

The stars are described as “tearing like mouths,” directly comparing them to mouths using the word “like.” That is a simile. The lines do not repeat a word or substitute a related term for something else.

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