Figurative Language in Out of the Dust

What TWO terms are being used in the following line (Pick 2):

"...my father, who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child"

• idiom

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

"...streaks of light swam and danced and wavered..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

"I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

"We just are, we just be, like rocks besides the road."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

"...and the road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

"...Winnie tipped the water onto the cracked earth at the gate. It sucked it in immediately..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

"...they were careful with her, a little gingerly, as if she were an egg."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

"Just go out, like the flame of a candle..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

"Everything is a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Read this quote from Chapter Eight and analyze it for Figurative Language. "The Sports Family was next, the boys carrying football pads and helmets, their mother teetering on high heels. Then there was a flurry of cars streaming from every driveway onto the still-sparkling new streets." What TWO types of Figurative Language are used in the quote?

• Simile and Metaphor

• Metaphor and Alliteration

• Alliteration and Onomatopoeia

• Onomatopoeia and Repetition