Read the following six sentences. State the type of figurative language used, and give the literal meaning of each. 1. Mary talked to her son about girls as though she were giving him tax advice.
2. I can smell pizza from a mile away.
3. The buses can be impatient in this town.
4. Her eyes are fireflies when she talks about ballet.
5. Keith drank from a bottomless glass of orange juice.
6. Lynda's cell phone dropped into the toilet like a falling star.

Below is the last stanza of a poem, "dover beach," written in 1876 by matthew arnold. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night. which of these statements best describes the remedy arnold proposes for the world? a. look to your dreams for answers to life's questions. b. our faith in each other can shelter us from deceptive chaos. c. in this deceptive world, ignorance requires faith. d. the world may end, but love conquers all.