A. Alliteration b. Imagery
c. Simile
d. Personification
e. Metaphor
16.The lake was a mirror in which the silver moon shone,
17 Three grey geese in a green field grazing, Grey were the geese and green was the grazing,
18. In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone to
bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples
abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice
cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops.
19. During the night, the blanket crept up until it was snuggled under my chin and my feet were bare,
20. The two year-old ripped through the house like a nuclear cyclone.

16: A

17. A

18: B

19:D

20: C

16.personification

17.Alliteration

18.imagery

19.personification

20.Simile

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”