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That night the Board of Aldermen met—three graybeards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation. The underlined part is the use of _______.

A. synecdoche
B. metonymy
C. metaphor
D. simile

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Each of the trees on the place had an attitude and a presence—the elm looked serene and the oak threatening, the maples friendly, the hawthorn old and crabby. What are the figures of speech in the underlined parts ?

A. simile
B. personification
C. metonymy
D. metaphor

At any moment, rumor could have sent those savage levies _______ away into the mountains.

A. moving
B. climbing
C. disappearing
D. scrambling

Greece to the south was in a turmoil as the Persians marched toward it. What to do? Whom to trust? What to believe?

A. in a state
B. in a storm
C. in action
D. in disorder

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A. production
B. destruction
C. improvement
D. conversion

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