Answer: 1. personification - words climbing
2. diving into the stream of students is a metaphor comparing the stream of students to a stream of water.
3. Dropped "like" a pop tart is a simile because a simile is a comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
4. We collide "like" bumper cars - simile.
5. Personification - gut is like a beast scraping away.
6. Simile - it is using 'like' to make a comparison.
7. Simile - "like" a popped balloon.
8. Lights wink. Lights can't wink so that is personification - when you give something inanimate human characteristics.
9. The card is "like" a white patch of hope but they didn't use like so it is a metaphor. Only a simile uses like or as.
10. The sandwich barfed. Sandwiches can't barf so it is personification.
11. Her voice sounds LIKE - simile uses like or as.
12. I am a deer. He is comparing himself to a deer without using 'like' or 'as' so it is a metaphor.
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I explained for each answer.
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Answer C
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Correct. The author uses the two commas to separate three comments, introduced by “But you will tell me,” that his audience could make to counter his earlier argument about nineteenth-century artists’ relationship to their surroundings. By using commas this way, the author is able to quickly identify and distinguish among three related claims within a potential counterargument to his own views. Doing so allows him to begin refuting this counterargument in the next paragraph.
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1. Colleen is a clever teacher; she is also an inspiring one.
2. Her lectures are interesting; they are full of information.
3. She has a college degree in history; world history is her specialty.
4. She begins her classes by answering questions; she ends them by asking questions.
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Spending holidays with in-laws results in the most disagreements with extended family.
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