Which group of words from the story is a figure of speech? Group of answer choices “. . . as tight as a drum.” “. . . the same spot again.” “. . . hide-and-seek in a schoolyard.” “. . . a short list of suspects.”

"As tight as a Drum."

Explanation:

Figure of Speech:

A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.

S Something being as tight as a drum could mean its hard to get into or very stiff, Drums use leather for example and its stretched so tightly that its difficult to tear or get into.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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