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1. 'Out in the porch's sagging floor, Leaves got up in a coil and hissed, Blindly struck at my knee and missed.'
2. George Bush talked during his campaign about 'compassionate conservatism', which to many liberals sounds like a(n) ___________________.
3. 'Necessity is the mother of invention.'
4. 'The poor people of Ireland should rid themselves of poverty by selling their children to the rich to eat.'
5. The phrases 'the humming bee', 'the cackling hen', and 'the buzzing saw' are examples of ________________.
6. 'How many times have I told you to clean your room?'
7. 'To err is human, to forgive divine.'
8. 'My uncle passed away in 1970.'
9. 'When Detroit increased auto production recently, Wall Street applauded and the White House took credit.'
10. 'My rancher uncle bought 50 head of cattle last week.'
11. 'My son's teacher made it clear that cheating on tests was no laughing matter.'
12. 'Hail divinest Melancholy, whose saintly visage is too bright to hit the sense of human sight.'
13. 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!'
14. 'Christianity shone like a beacon in the black night of paganism.' What figure of speech is "Christianity shone like a beacon"?
15. In Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis are buried President Benjamin Harrison, 3 Vice-Presidents, 15 Senators and Governors, and John Dillinger.'
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