Figurative Language in a Poem about the Empire State Building

Question 1

What type of personification is shown in this line from the poem?

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action

Question 2

feeling✔ actioncharacteristic

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✔ action

Question 3

feelingaction✔ characteristic

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✔ characteristic

Question 4

Decide whether each phrase is a metaphor or an example of personification.

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metaphor; personification

Question 5

metaphor✔ personification

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✔ personification

Question 6

✔ metaphorpersonification

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✔ metaphor

Question 7

metaphor✔ personification

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✔ personification

Question 8

What is being personified in this poem?

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the Empire State Building

Question 9

Determine which human quality the personification has.

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✔ feeling; It's lonely up here without my big twin brothers: feeling; I hugged King Kong: action; I am an American boy, face to face with the world: characteristic

Question 10

Why might the author have used the metaphor “bricks of . . . faith” in “Empire State Building”?

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to show the concepts of great size and strength

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