Match each phrase from the story to the correct type of figure of speech. Column A
1.
Simile:

Simile
2.
Metaphor:

Metaphor
3.
Hyperbole:

Hyperbole
4.
Personification:

Personification
Column B
a."He was as helpless as a newborn baby" (paragraph 1)
b."the people were scared to death" (paragraph 2)
c."The barn wrapped its wooden arms around him" (paragraph 2)
d."Steven's eyes were fiery torches" (paragraph

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the rhyme scheme of "an open boat" is abcb abab abba aabc

An effective thesis statement will reflect . . 1) possible weaknesses in your own argument. 2) possible weaknesses in your opponent's argument. 3) the type of document--or genre--you plan to write. 4) your attitudes about aquatic mammals

Is the sentence “ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.” a phrase or a clause?