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the line the silence was soft with cobwebs... is a
a) metaphor
b) simile
c) personification
d) oxymoron

...sheathed over in a gleam of pebbles skin like the mail of a terrible warrior..
a) a simile
b) metaphor
c) hyperbole
d) personification

Remember that. Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler...none of them exists...
a) hyperbole
b) personification
c) allusion
d) metaphor

So many people were shut up inside themselves like boxes..
a) personification
b) metaphor
c) oxymoron
d) simile

Millicent sipped her cold, sweet drink slowly...
a) personification
b) simile
c) hyperbole
d) imagery

I used a kind of water gun...
a) foreshadowing
b) flashback
c) personification
d) smile

He killed me at Scrabble...
a) understatement
b) diction/hyperbole
c) simile
d) metaphor

I was a coward. I went to war.
a) verbal irony
b) dramatic irony
c) situational irony
d) hyperbole

They leaped like deer on the moon.
a) hyperbole
b) metaphor
c) simile
d) personification

The Tip Top Lodge was NOT in good shape...this is an example of
a) symbolism
b) oxymoron
c) situational irony
d) simile

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