Too busy for her own good, Sarah was negligent about drinking enough water.
The other verb phrases would not fit the context of the sentence.
1. his laptop now belongs to me, because he sold it to me
2. these shoes doesn't fit me
3.
Answer:
1. Technique: Personification
Explanation: the noun can't actually do what the author of that statement said it was doing
2. Technique: Simile
Explanation: it uses the word 'like' to describe the noun
3. Technique: Metaphor
Explanation: the exaggeration is directly described to the noun
5. um not sure why there are two sentences
Explanation:
Answer:
Like medals with their ribbons
a five-haired beard of wisdom