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Match each element of figurative language with its example.1. Symbol 2. Metaphor 3. Simile 4. Hyperbole 5. Understatement 6. Allusion 7. Irony 8. Personification 9. Synecdoche 10. Metonymy a. "Water, water, everywhere,/Nor any (but not a) drop to drink." b. "One of these days these boots/are gonna walk all over you." c. "I gazed on the forest and burned/out the Sahara desert,/with a packet of goat's meat/and a change of clothes/I crossed it in two hours" d. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep./But I have promises to keep" e. "Night falls like a wet sponge" f. "How now, Mr. Shakespeare, should a poet say what poetry should not express" g. "And all the lands belong to the crown." h. "The fog comes/on little cat feet" i. "The sky is low, the clouds are mean,/A travelling flake of snow/Across a barn or through a rut/Debates if it will go." j. "I think I know enough of hate/To say that for destruction ice/Is also great/And would suffice."

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Answer:

a. Hyperbole

b. Symbol

c. Synecdoche

d. Allusion

e. Simile

f. Irony

g. Metonymy

h. Metaphor

i. Personification

j. Understatement

I'm pretty sure about all of these but you may want to double check them with someone elses answers

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