figurative language is phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across. Determine the figures or speech used in the following expressions. a) Toivo is the cancer of my dreams and aspirations b) Gadgets isolate. us from tge rest of the family members c) pamue has been teaching here since stone age d) love is blind . it dragged her into that mess​

a. Metaphor.

b. Personification.

c. Hyperbole.

d. Personification.

Explanation:

A figurative language also known as figures of speech can be defined as a deliberate and specific construction or use of language by authors, writers or speakers to create a special effect in their speech or write-up.

The main purpose of a figurative language is to convey more information and enable the readers or listeners have a deeper understanding of the piece.

Some examples of figurative language used in a literary work are simile, paradox, metaphor, apostrophe, hyperbole, personification, etc.

a) Metaphor: Toivo is the cancer of my dreams and aspirations. Metaphor is an implied comparison without the use of the word as or like. It involves creating a direct similarity between two words or things.

b) Personification: Gadgets isolate us from the rest of the family members. Personification involves intentionally attributing life, human characteristics (qualities) or feelings and emotions to inanimate objects i.e non-living things.

c) Hyperbole: Pamue has been teaching here since stone age. Hyperbole is an unintentional or deliberate exaggeration (overstatement) of an event, situation or thing. The stone age was typically a period of uncivilization in which the people were uneducated and illiterate.

d) Personification: love is blind. It dragged her into that mess. Love is described as being blind whereas it's a feeling that cannot possess such quality.

type of error:

the error in the sentence is a "dangling modifier". a dangling modifier is a phrase, word or clause that "dangles" because there is not target to modify. in this case, "after mopping the floor" is the dangling modifier since it has no word to modify. the noun "house" cannot mop the floor; therefore there is a mistake in the writing of the sentence.

most likely the answer would be a.) cupidity

definitions:

cupidity - greed for money or possessions

hydrophobia - extreme or irrational fear of water, especially as a symptom of rabies in humans

pathology - the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic

patho -   relating to disease