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Match the figure of speech to the quote or topics in Things Fall Apart.

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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is considered the archetypical modern African novel. The author describes life in Africa before, during and after European colonization. The pairs are the following:

A.“Fireflies went about with their tiny green lamps […]” ---metaphor.

B. Earth, Sky ---extended metaphor

C. wrestler, drums --- personification

D. “[…] they are white like this piece of chalk.”---- simile

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1. Personification ----- C. wrestler, drums: Personification is the figure of speech capable of attributing to irrational beings or inanimate objects actions, qualities and feelings that are proper to human beings. For this reason, the phrase that represents a personification is "wrestler, drums" because the speaker is impersonating drums with wrestlers.
2.simile ---------- D. “[…] they are white like this piece of chalk.”: Simile is a figure of language characterized by the approximation between two or more elements that have a common feature, which may or may not be highlighted. In the phrase “[…] they are white like this piece of chalk.” There is a comparison of the color of the piece of chalk and the color of "they".
3. metaphor -------- A.“Fireflies went about with their tiny green lamps […]”: The metaphor is a picture of language. It is an implicit comparison between two elements that have one or more features in common, without that feature being emphasized. Thus, the comparison is implyed and there is no explicit comparative term either. In the phrase “Fireflies went about with their tiny green lamps […]” there is an implicit comparison of firefly light.
4.extended metaphor -------- B. Earth, Sky: The extended metaphor is a rhetorical language figure that expands the meaning of the term, conveying one or more meanings beyond the literal. An allegory need not necessarily be expressed in the written text, being present in other forms of artistic manifestation, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, etc. The extended metaphor is a rhetorical language figure that expands the meaning of the term, conveying one or more meanings beyond the literal. An allegory need not necessarily be expressed in the written text, being present in other forms of artistic manifestation, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, etc. In this case, the phrase that best fits this context is: "Earth, Sky".

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