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OpenStudy (anonymous):

1. Which figure of speech is the following line an example of? The wind screamed and howled all night long. onomatopoeia simile alliteration personification 2. Which figure of speech is used in the following excerpt from the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare? And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. personification onomatopoeia simile metaphor @uri

OpenStudy (anonymous):

the first one is personification. Personification is giving no-living things human characteristics. In the second one a similie is used. A similie is when you make a comparison by using like or as.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I agree with Will679.....1. personification : 2. simile

OpenStudy (anonymous):

1) Onomatopoeia because it's a sounding device. "It crackled and howled" from Rime of an Ancient Mariner. 2)Like implies similie.

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