Which two phrases in the passage below are examples of personification? The sky was dark as the devil’s heart, the rain a hail of bullets as the merciless gale ripped the dying leaves from branches even as the trees screamed in protest.
merciless gale, trees screamed
dark as the devil’s heart
the rain a hail of bullets
dying leaves

Match the description to the term. 1. framework of a short story narration 2. main idea of a paragraph plot 3. connectors between sentences assonance 4. sentence completers setting 5. repetition of vowel sounds that are followed by different consonants complements 6. time, place, culture in a story run-on sentence 7. conversation between characters in a story transitional devices 8. relating of actions and incidents in a story topic sentence 9. two or more unrelated thoughts dialogue