Question

identify the figures of speech used in the following sentence. select TWO choices.

"I would get on tip-toe, arms outstretched in the position for flight & jump out my fifty-story-high window into the black lake of the sky."

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
B. Hyperbole

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Metaphor

D. Hyperbole

Explanation:

Simile would have the words "like" or "as" and involving a comparison of one thing with a different kind

Personification gives human characteristics to nonhuman things

And since those two are not showing up in the sentence it can only leave those two left