English III Unit 1 Sinners Figures Of Speech Question Preview (ID: 17462)


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...If your strength were ten thousand times greater than it is...it would be nothing to withstand or endure it.
a) hyperbole
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) personification

...Justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow...
a) hyperbole
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) personification

It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit...
a) hyperbole
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) personification

His wrath towards you burns like fire...
a) hyperbole
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) personification

heavy as lead
a) hyperbole
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) personification

lake of burning brimstone
a) hyperbole
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) personification

flames...would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up
a) hyperbole
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) personification

you are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours
a) hyperbole
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) personification

all your righteousness, would have no more influence...than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock
a) hyperbole
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) personification

hell's wide gaping mouth
a) hyperbole
b) simile
c) personification
d) metaphor

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