A Tale of Two Cities

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how silver sweet sound lovers tongues by night

like softest music to attending ears

onomatopoeia

personification

Antithesis .

Hyperbole.

They are called quatrains, which means "four line unit". They are followed by a couplet, which means "two line unit".

Jungle

Which of these passages from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains a metaphor?

I reckoned Jim had fetched up on a snag, maybe, and it was all up with him. I was good and tired, so I laid down in the canoe and said I wouldn't bother no more.

I set perfectly still then, listening to my heart thump, and I reckon I didn't draw a breath while it thumped a hundred.

That was all right as far as it went, but the towhead warn't sixty yards long, and the minute I flew by the foot of it I shot out into the solid white fog, and hadn't no more idea which way I was going than a dead man.

… the brackish water itself, however nauseous to the rest of the world, was so greatly esteemed by these fowls, that they might be seen tasting, turning up their heads, and smacking their bills, with precisely the air of wine-bibbers round a probationary cask.

hyperbole

We had dinner out in that broad open passage...and there was things enough on that table for seven families--and all hot, too; none of your flabby, tough meat that's laid in a cupboard in a damp cellar all night and tastes like a hunk of old cold cannibal in the morning.

That I had a fever and was avoided...that the time seemed interminable, that I confounded impossible existences with my own identity; that I was a brick in the house wall, and yet entreating to be released from the giddy place where the builders had set me;...

Then he came into the business part of the city, where the streets were sewers of inky blackness, with horses sleeping and plunging, and women and children flying across in panic-stricken droves.

The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard.

The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses...and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.

The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you--ties that will bind you yet more tenderly and strongly to the home you so adorn.