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Decide whether the following quotations are literal or figurative. If figurative, identify the figure and explain what is compared to what.

1. O tenderly the haughty day

Fills his blue urn with fire. Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. It is with words as with sunbeams – the more

They are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey

3. Joy and Temperance and Repose

Slam the door on the doctor’s nose.

Anonymous

4. The pen is mightier than the sword. Edward Bulwer-Lytton

5. The strongest oaths are straw

To the fire i’ the blood. William Shakespeare

6. The Cambridge ladies … live in furnished souls. e.e.

cummings

7. Dorothy’s eyes, with their long brown lashes,

looked very much like her mother’s. Laetitia Johnson

8. The tawny-hided desert crouches watching her. Francis Thompson

9. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. Isaiah 22.13

10.Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.

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