| A | B |
|---|
| personification | The dust lingered over the plains. |
| onomatopoeia | Boom! |
| simile | Like a crashing plane, the stock market prices dropped in 1929. |
| alliteration | The dust completely covered the Crowe’s cozy cottage. |
| metaphor | FDR was a brave lion when he worked to end the Great Depression. |
| hyperbole | “I am so hungry I could eat a horse,” said the young boy waiting in the government food line. |
| idom | My family was already struggling to pay bills, but when my father lost his job it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. |
| assonance | •"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed," said the father trying to find work. |
