Read the following sentence and determine which type of figurative language is being used.

Sheila was a mother bear when the woman tried to take her baby from her.

A.

simile

B.

metaphor

C.

metonymy

D.

personification

True or false? Does a person have two kinds of memories.

Hesters sentence is for a scarlet A to be permanently affixed to her clothing. What was her crime, and why, according to Puritan law, did it warrant such a punishment?

What was the purpose of an acropolis in Greek city-states?

What does mary do when she finds out about her husband's plan in "lamb to the slaughter"? a. she hits him in the head with a spanner. b. she calls the police. c. she runs away. d. she hits him over the head with a frozen leg of lamb.

What does Buckley argue is the relationship between our failure to complain and our failure to care about politics? How does he attempt to convince us of that relationship

In a raisin in the sun, who is karl lindner?

In Act I Banquo says, "The instruments of darkness tell us truths/Win us with honest trifles, to betray's/In the deepest consequences.

When Odysseus goes to the land of the dead what special sacrifice does he sacrifice for Tiresias.

How does the first paragraph contribute to the central idea of the article?

Which of the following would most likely appear in a feature article, but not in a news article, about Hurricane Katrina? A. a map showing meteorological data about the storm, such as total rainfall and top wind speeds B.