Read the passage. tina beat me at the trivia game again. she is such a clever fox, she always wins! which figure of speech do the bold words represent? a. personification b. implied metaphor c. metaphor d. simile

The answer is C: metaphor.

A metaphor is a figure of speech or rhetorical figure in which two things that would not normally or literally be associated become related in order to expand on the figurative sense of the object that is being compared to something else (in this case Tina is compared to a fox). A metaphor is easily identifiable because it establishes the comparison directly without the use of comparative clauses such as: like (when the word “like” or any synonym is used in the comparison, then we are talking about a simile).  

the correct answer is option d. the nature of democracy. on november 19, 1863, president abraham lincoln delivered his famous gettysburg address in gettysburg, pennsylvania. in his speech, rather than focusing on details of the war (soldiers, casualties, aftermath of battle), lincoln invoked the very nature of democracy, that power ultimately comes from the people, when stating, “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish”. these words mean that democracy is a government by the people (citizens) in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by the people or by their elected representatives for the benefit of all citizens. the survival of democracy in the united states is one of the reasons why this speech so significant today.