In English / Senior High School | 2024-09-01

TASK 2: Identify the figures of speech shown by the statements below. Your choiceMETAPHOR, PERSONIFICATION, and HYPERBOLE.1. The traffic crawled along the congested highway.2. The whole house slept well the night the murderer was captured.3. I am sick to death of the greedy politicians.4. The house was as small as a turtle's shell.5. For her husband, Amelia is a trophy that he brags about.6. The heaven opened, and the angel sang when she met Tom.7. Her soft skin was like silk under his fingers.8. The messy room screamed for attention.9. Racism is a cancer to society.10. The leaves of the dying tree begged for rain.11. It takes my girlfriend an eternity to get dressed.12. He is like an infant with diaper with his sagging pants.13. In autumn, the trees undress themselves by throwing off their leaves.14. We must have walked a hundred miles today.15. Fading memories are footprints in sand16. I sat still, like an owl.17. Ever since she lost him, she kept her heart in a drawer.18. I was so hungry I thought I was going to die19. He is as skinny as a toothpick.20. The hole was so deep; it went all the way to the other side of the world!​

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