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2 months ago

Match each excerpt to the figure of speech is uses.

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Here are the explanations for the excerpts provided above:
1. Tiles All we Karamazovs are such insects, and...that insect lives in you, too. (from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky): METAPHOR
2. Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything, from nothing first create, O heavy lightness! Serious vanity! (from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare): APOSTROPHE
3. I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far. (from Old Times on the Mississippi by Mark Twain): HYPERBOLE

Leya [7.7K]2 months ago

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1. All we Karamazovs are such insects, and...that insect lives in you, too.

metaphor

2. Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything, from nothing first create, O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!

oxymoron

3. I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.

hyperbole

Explanation:

1. metaphor entails an implicit comparison, indicating that something is representative of something else.

"we Karamazovs are such insects" suggests the speaker is likening his family to insects by asserting that they are insects.

2. oxymoron includes juxtaposing two contradictory terms.

"loving hate" exemplifies such a pairing, as do "heavy lightness," "Serious vanity," and "brawling love."

3. hyperbole involves exaggeration for emphasis.

"I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far." This excerpt is a prime example of hyperbole due to its blatant exaggeration.

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