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title: "week 5"
description: "Exercise:Say if the sentences or phrases below are metaphors, similes, personifications or metonyms...."
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# week 5

> Exercise:Say if the sentences or phrases below are metaphors, similes, personifications or metonyms....

**Exercise:** **Say if the sentences or phrases below are metaphors, similes, personifications or metonyms.**

- *"Education is our passport to the future, and tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."* —Malcolm X, civil rights activist and writer

- *"The computer had become like the most miraculous sort of technological Swiss Army knife: each time you thought you knew what it could do, it turned out that it could do more, faster, and more accurately."* —Anna Quindlen, author

- *"Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."* —Douglas Jerrold, playwright and humorist (1803-1857)

- *"Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand." —*Mark Abley, journalist (1955)

- *"A good example is the best sermon."* —Ben Franklin, Founding Father, statesman, author, inventor

- English is unrivaled as the most widely-spoken language in the world. It is the sole or joint language of more nations and territories than any other tongue

- *"Slang is 'a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work."* —Carl Sandburg, poet

- *"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for it to kill your enemy."* —Nelson Mandela, former South African president, who was previously imprisoned for 30 years for his anti-apartheid activities; after his release, he negotiated the end of apartheid, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

Good luck!

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