EXERCISES
Are the images which you form made more vivid by the use of the figures in the following selections?
1. She began to screech as wild as ocean birds.
2. And when its force expended,
The harmless storm was ended;
And as the sunrise splendid
Came blushing o'er the sea—
3. As a demon is hurled by an angel's spear,
Heels over head, to his proper sphere—
Heels over head and head over heels,—
Dizzily down the abyss he wheels,—
So fell Darius.
—J.T. Trowbridge.
4. In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning point.
—Hawthorne.
5. Poverty, treading close at her heels for a lifetime, has come up with her at last.
—Hawthorne.