Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor.
He played a few chords then he sang some
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-"The Weary Blues," Langston Hughes
Which figure of speech is repeated in this excerpt?

simile
onomatopoeia
personification

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explanation:

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.

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