Please i need help fast, this is a quiz i need to turn in!!!

Select the correct answer.

Which figure of speech is used in the following sentence?

The room filled with deafening silence as Juan walked onto the stage to deliver his speech.

A.

simile

B.

oxymoron

C.

personification

D.

metaphor

Read the excerpt from act i of the importance of being earnest. lane. i attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. i have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. algernon. good heavens! is marriage so demoralising as that? this excerpt best illustrates which feature of a comedy of manners?

Lauses unnecessary to the meanings of the words modified demonstrative 2. clauses necessary to the meanings of the words modified relative 3. words for which pronouns stand intensive 4. a pronoun ending in -self and referring to the previously used noun or pronoun nonrestrictive clauses 5. a pronoun ending in -self and used for emphasis restrictive clauses 6. pronouns that ask questions indefinite pronouns 7. pronouns that point out to whom or to what the speaker is referring reflexive 8. everyone, nobody, and something are examples antecedents 9. pronouns introducing adjective or noun clauses interrogative 10. i, you, him, mine, and their are examples personal pronouns

In one sentence of approximately 15 to 25 words, write the main idea that thomas paine wants to convert to all the readers of the declaration of independence