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What are they--alliteration, metaphor, simile, personification, onomotopoeia, or imagery?
1. My skin is like a canvas tent.
2. The bathroom sink drip-drips.
3. The wind stood up and gave a shout.
4. Some dreams stand in the air like smoke touching everything.
5. The car's motor puttered happily after I filled the tank with gas.
6. The note on the refrigerator unlocked the mystery of the missing peanut butter.
7. The kangaroo, a rubber ball, bounced around its cage.
8. Life is like a long journey to an unknown destination.
9. The golden sunshine was flashing across the sky.
10.The scratchy sweater was a swarm of mosquitoes landing on Tanya's arms.
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
The Termite by Ogden Nash
Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good!
And that is why your cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
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