Match each excerpt to the correct type of figurative language

- "Mothers weeping" is alliteration (repeating letters, like the m's and v's)

- "Apple Orchard" is metaphor (comparison without the words like or as)

- "Cattle" is simile (comparison with the word like)

- "Vessel puffs" is personification (ship is female, and she fills her own sails)

1. He is all pine and I am apple orchard: metaphor

Metaphors directly assert that one element is similar or equal to another element, figuratively speaking.

2. Mothers weeping, virgins screaming vainly for their slaughtered sires: alliteration

A sentence uses alliteration when two or more neighboring words have the same initial consonant sound. Sentence 2 uses this literary device in the words: virgins and vainly, and slaughtered and sires

3. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: personification

Personification is a literary device that gives a thing, idea, abstract qualities, any aspect of nature, emotions or any other non-human object, human characteristics. "the vessel puffs her sail" sentence uses this device because it gives a non-human object the characteristic of "puffing"

4. Be not like dumb, driven cattle!: simile

Similes use comparisons to describe an event, someone, a place, etc. It aims to make writing more colorful and interesting. We can normally identify a simile because it uses the words "like", "as" and "as in", and others, in the sentence.

the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

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