Answer: you didn't provide the paragraph
After doing some online searching, I've found that this question refers to figurative language. It is not an incomplete question, it was just missing the context for people to be able to understand it. Now that I know what it is about, I can safely answer:
Answer:
Simile.
Explanation:
In the phrase "Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed" we have something being compared to something else. Even though we don't know what it is, we know it is compared to burnt-out torches.<u> The comparison was made with the help of a support word, "like".</u> Its purpose it to attribute one or more qualities of a burnt-out torch to something else by saying they are similar. <u>Comparisons that use support words are called </u><u>simile.</u> They are a very common figure of speech along with metaphors, with the difference that metaphors also make comparisons, but without using support words.
Answer:
1. A person whose job is acting is an actor.
2. A video shop is a place that you can rent some films.
3. Dan’s sister, who lives in Hollywood, is an actress.
4. My father’s car, which he bought in 1991, is still working.
5. Frankenstein (or the Modern Prometheus), which is a horror book, was written by Mark Shelley.
6. Stephenie Meyer is the author whose books were made into film adaptations, twilight saga.
7. The most popular animation films are from the Walt Disney pictures whose main character is mickey mouse.
8. Birdman, whose director is Mexican, won the Oscar for the best film.
9. This is the year that the last part of the hunger games will release.
10. Eddie Redmayne, who won an Oscar for the best actor, is the pro- tagonist of the theory of everything.
The topic sentence should come first in a argumentitive essay