The great ship sighed, hesitated, and then turned its back on the future, succumbing to the ocean’s deep and fatal promises. the type of figurative language used in the sentence is alliteration metaphor persification simile. what is the function of the highlighted phrase in the following sentence? we climbed the hill to see the view. it functions as an adverb. it functions as an adjective. it is not a modifier. identify the dangling modifier (if there is one) in the following sentence: the open front door was a welcome and long-awaited sight, exhausted after a long day. a welcome and long-awaited exhausted after a long day the open front there is no dangling modifier. what does this figurative language mean? the hurricane roared up the coast like a man-eating lion, devouring beach house after beach house. the hurricane r