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Figurative Langauge

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  • Q1
    Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.
    Idiom
    Alliteration
    Simile
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q2
    She soothed her secret sorrow.
    Idiom
    Alliteration
    Onomatopoeia
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q3
    Silver bells!... How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night.
    Personification
    Hyperbole
    Metaphor
    Onomatopoeia
    30s
  • Q4
    He answered her he knew not what: / Like shaft from bow at random shot,
    Simile
    Hyperbole
    Metaphor
    Personification
    30s
  • Q5
    And I will return, my love, / even if it were a million miles.
    Onomatopoeia
    Hyperbole
    Personification
    Alliteration
    30s
  • Q6
    When you, my Dear, are away, away, / How wearily goes the day. A year drags after morning, and night / Starts another year
    Simile
    Metaphor
    Hyperbole
    Personification
    30s
  • Q7
    Drip—hiss—drip—hiss— fall the raindrops.
    Alliteration
    Personification
    Onomatopoeia
    Rhyme
    30s
  • Q8
    Falstaff sweats to death, as he walks along; / Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
    Personification
    Onomatopoeia
    Hyperbole
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q9
    Lives of great men remind us / We can make our lives sublime; And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time.
    Allusion
    Metaphor
    Simile
    Hyperbole
    30s
  • Q10
    All night long with rush and lull The rain kept drumming on the roof.
    Alliteration
    Hyperbole
    Personification
    Metaphor
    30s

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