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Question
Match the poetic lines with Figures of speech.
| 1) | So brainy | personification |
| 2) | Mountains | personification |
| 3) | It's so absent-minded | hyperbole |
| 4) | Computer gobbled a worm | metaphor |
| 5) | Very sick | metaphor |
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Solution
| 1) | So brainy | personification |
| 2) | Mountains | metaphor |
| 3) | It's so absent-minded | personification |
| 4) | Computer gobbled a worm | hyperbole |
| 5) | Very sick | metaphor |
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