Read the excerpt from "The Lady, or the Tiger?" Which types of descriptive language are used in the
excerpt?
In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king.
whose ideas, though somewhat polished and
sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin
neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as
became the half of him which was barbaric.
O metaphor and hyperbole
O strong verbs and simile
O sensory details and precise adjectives
O precise adjectives and strong verbs