The main idea or moral principle that forms the basis for a story is its plot theme denouement climax what figure of speech is used in describing winter as an old man with a white, frosty beard? simile metaphor personification what figure of speech is used in the expression "happy as a lark"? simile metaphor personification
1. The correct answer is 'theme'. 2. That is a 'personification', because it means bringing inanimate objects/concepts to life. Winter is not alive, but it is represented as an old man. 3. This is a 'simile', they have the form using 'as', or 'like'.
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In at least 150 words, describe the tone of patrick henry’s virginia convention speech, including the rhetorical devices he uses to achieve this. use evidence from the text to support your answer.
Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b. being sliced open by a giant blade c. being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive