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metaphor
If the comparison is preceded by 'like' or 'as' it is a Simile.

If the cave is called a whale's stomach directly, the figure-of-speech is a Metaphor.

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Q: What literary term describes the comparison between the whale's stomach and the Kentucky Mammoth Cave in Moby Dick?
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