Question

1. Symbol 2. Personification 3. Simile a. My phone slipped through my fingers like butter. b. The face of my phone had many scars from being dropped. c. My phone is my lifeline to the world.

Answer 1

Is this supposed to be a matching kinda thing? Is so..

1 matches with C.
2 matches with B. [A phone can't have scars, therefore why it's personification.]
3 matches with A. [Key word is "like".]

Answer 2

The correct pairing and example for each figure of speech are as follows:

Simile: a figure of speech used to compare something to a different type of thing.

- My phone slipped through my fingers like butter

Personification: a figure of speech used to illustrate non-human things in a human-like way.

- The face of my phone had many scars from being dropped.

Symbol: a figure of speech used to represent an abstract idea.

- My phone is my lifeline to the world.