Paul was walking into the college room smart and grinning .His clothing had outgrown him a little,and the beige/tan soft velvet at the collar on his over coat that was open that had turned into a worn and wrinkled; but for that there was a dandy thing about himself, he wore a pin that was oval shape in his
4-in-hand that was black and neatly knotted and a carnation that was crimson in his button hole.This Latter adornment that the school had somehow felt befitting a boy spirit under the banning of suspension
The images of chaos and destruction in the poem are reinforced by its uneven meter and a regular rhythm scheme
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Lourdes hadn’t bothered to study for the essay exam, joking that her motto was "fake it ‘til you make it." Now, as she stared in horror at the test booklet, the blank pages were doing the laughing, knowing she had no answers. What kind of figurative language is used?
a. personification
b. simile
c. metaphor
d. hyperbole
Answer:
The kind of figurative language being used is:
a. personification
Explanation:
<u>Personification is a common figure of speech in literary works. Personification happens when an author gives living qualities to non-living things.</u> For instance, if the speaker of a poem says that the wind and the leaves are dancing during fall, he is using personification. Wind and leaves are not humans; they do not dance. However, by saying so, the speaker makes the movements of the leaves being carried by the wind more artistic, more vivid even.
<u>The same happens when the author of the passage we are analyzing says, "the blank pages were doing the laughing, knowing she had no answers." Blank pages are not beings, much less conscious beings. They cannot know anything or laugh at all. But, by phrasing it this way, the author makes it seem that Lourdes is being mocked, that her fate is quite an ironic one.</u>
