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Read the following paragraph:
With clangs and clatters, three dozen or so people in grubby clothes started down a gravel road toward a giant hole in the ground. Each dragged a plastic bucket with a spade and small knife inside. A few carried shovels and picks over their shoulders.
The words "clangs and clatters" are examples of which TWO types of poetic devices?
Group of answer choices
onomatopoeia
simile
personification
alliteration
Read the following paragraph:
They talked as they walked. The group included a surgeon from North Carolina, a building contractor from out West, two teachers from Patterson County, and even a minister from Wrightson Beach. What in the world were people like this doing traipsing around a gravel quarry on a Saturday morning, looking like a bunch of coal miners? The answer: digging for fossils. Greenview Quarry, where Saturday's dig took place, is fast becoming the hottest fossil hunting spot in the region.
Based on context clues, what is the meaning of traipsing?
Group of answer choices
limping
roaming
The following sentence uses which type of figurative language?
Out in the dark where he was, the wind shrieked and howled.
Group of answer choices
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
personification