If you ever read how to kill a mockingbird
1. “One night, in an excessive spurt of high spirits, the boys backed around the square.” (Chp 1, p. 11)
A. Idiom
or
B. Euphemism
2. “But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” (Chp 1, p. 6)
A. Oxymoron
or
B. Allusion
3. “. . . there were other ways of making people ghosts.” (Chp 1, p. 12)
A. Simile
or
B. Metaphor
4. “. . . Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming.” (Chp 7, p. 67)
A. Malapropism
or
B. Euphemism