English, 25.11.2019 17:31 soccergirl88821

The great ship sighed, hesitated, and then turned its back on the future, succumbing to the ocean’s deep and fatal promises.
the type of figurative language used in the sentence is
alliteration
metaphor
persification
simile.

what is the function of the highlighted phrase in the following sentence?
we climbed the hill to see the view.

it functions as an adverb.
it functions as an adjective.
it is not a modifier.

identify the dangling modifier (if there is one) in the following sentence: the open front door was a welcome and long-awaited sight, exhausted after a long day.

a welcome and long-awaited
exhausted after a long day
the open front
there is no dangling modifier.

what does this figurative language mean? the hurricane roared up the coast like a man-eating lion, devouring beach house after beach house.

the hurricane resembled a lion.
the hurricane did some damage along the coast.
the fiercely destructive hurricane devastated beach-front property.
many people were killed by the fierce hurricane.

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