Read the excerpt below and answer the question. There would be recesses in my mind which would be only mine, to which he never c
ame, and sentiments growing there fresh and sheltered which his austerity could never blight, nor his measured warrior-march trample down: but as his wife—at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked—forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital—this would be unendurable. (chapter 34) Which option identifies the types of figurative language underlined in the excerpt? simile; idiom hyperbole; metaphor metaphor; personification personification; hyperbole
t's his best known speech and includes two of his most famous quotes. One is the opening sentence: “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal