Drag each tile to the correct location. Match each sentence with the correct figure of speech.

We went a-quaking and
shaking down the side
of the boat—seemed a
week before we got to
the stern. (Mark Twain, Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn)

Here once the embattled
farmers stood And fired
the shot heard round the
world. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson, “Concord
Hymn”)

The tallest building in
town is the library. It has
a thousand stories.

Why can a man never
starve in the Great
Desert? Because he can
eat the sand which is
there.

It is always painful to
part from people whom
one has known for a very
brief space of time.
(Oscar Wilde)

Long engagements give
people the opportunity
of finding out each
other’s character before
marriage, which is never
advisable.