Things Fall Apart

Explain the use of figurative devices in the following line:

"Amalinze was a wily craftsman, but Okonkwo was as slippery as a fish in water."

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Okonkwo was so dexterous that Amalinze could not get a firm hold onto him

"slippery as a fish in water," is a simile

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