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Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentences:

1. I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o’er vales and hills.
- Simile
2. Roll on, thou dark and deep blue Ocean – roll!
- Idiomatic Expressions
3. Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- Paradox
4. There was a deep boom, like the rolling of an ocean wave. The hearse door had
been slammed shut.
- Simile
5. I’m her lamplighter on her silent asteroid.
- Synecdoche
6. The mangroves stiffened on their haunches / clutching with gnarled fingers the peace
/ oozing heavily beneath them.
- Personification
7. An eloquent silence greeted this question.
- Metonymy
8. Do not adultery commit; / advantage rarely comes of it: / Thou shalt not steal; an
empty feat, / When it’s so lucrative to cheat.
- Paradox
9. O, thou art fairer than the evening’s air / Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
- Metaphor
10. In the dessert of the heart / Let the healing fountains start / In the prison of his days /
Teach the free man how to praise.
- Personification

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