figure of speech- C.A. help?

Question

what figures of speech are these like similes metaphors personification...etc.?
1. from the day mr radley took arthur home, people say the house died.
2. she looked and smelled like a peppermind drop
3. ...but jem was a poor example. no tutorial ever devised by man could have stopped him from getting at books.
4. jem looked at me furiously, could not decline, ran down the sidewalk, treaded water at the gate, then dashed in and retrieved the tire.
5. miss rachel went off like the town fire siren: "Do-o-o"
6. She was bullet-headed with strange almond-shaped eyes...and an indian-bow mouth
7. "For a while" in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years.
8. Lightnings rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetary.
9. Zeebo cleared his throat and read in a voice like the rumble of a distant artillery.

any of those are appreciated! i'm horrible at this. ha! THANKS!!!

Answer 1

"A good book is like a good meal." A simile suggesting that a book may be as ( mentally) nourishing and satisfying as a meal. It will usually have the word like in it.

"A wire is a road for electrons." A metaphor suggesting that electrons actually do use a wire as a road to travel on.

A mixed metaphor is an incongruous phrase like, "Early success can be a liability."

Personification gives human qualities to non-human things.

Litotes are gross understatements. Queen Victoria's phrase, "We are not amused" is a famous example.

Meiosis are little snotty nicknames, like calling a mechanic a grease monkey.

Hyperbole is a dramatic overstatement. I'm starving to death.

Epithet...using an appropriate adjective to characterize something, like a blood red sky or a stone cold heart.

A malapropism is a misuse of words because of a similiarity. Famous one by Dan Quayle: Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child." He meant bonding.

Metonomy is substituting a word or phrase for another closely related term, like crown for royalty. "Have you read Faulkner?" rather than have you read Faulkner's books. Sometimes people refer to the art and science of theatre as "The Theatre".

Syllepsis is using one term to describe two different things, like "He lost the game and his temper."

Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds, like softly snowing.

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, but I can't think of one.

Euphemism is the use of a "more polite" term, like saying someone passed away, instead of died or calling false teeth dentures. Saying someone is chubby instead of fat.

Maybe this will help you to understand figures of speech and you can figure these out for yourself...that was syllepsis.

Answer 2

. personification-nature is given human like qualities such as being methodized, restrained and ordained.by personfying nature, the writer is creating a strong imagery of nature as a person with strong characterisitcs.

Answer 3

2. simile
3. hyperbole
5. onomatopoeia
6. metaphor
8. personification, there's imagery too
9. simile