1) The picturesque market town was surrounded by fallow fields and leafy lanes. a) metaphor b) alliteration c) simile d) onomatopoeia 2) The ancient town was a warren of tunnels and narrow, twisting alleys that conspired to confuse anyone who entered. a) alliteration & simile b) sibilance & repetition c) metaphor & personification d) assonance & alliteration 3) Years of grime and pollution clung to the houses, spewed from the big, ugly factories that shadowed the streets a) personification b) simile c) metaphor d) alliteration 4) It was a ghost town of deserted houses crawling with mould and damp - empty shells with gaping windows like haunted eyes. a) assonance & consonance b) metaphor & alliteration c) onomatopoeia & sibilance d) personification & simile 5) Like strings of spaghetti, roads circled and split the town. a) onomatopoeia & alliteration b) simile & sibilance c) sibilance & assonance  d) repetition & imagery 6) Weeds and ivy had eaten their way into the cracks of the wall and spread their tentacles tightly into every crevice. a) sibilance & onomatopoeia b) personification & alliteration c) oxymoron & repetition d) hyperbole & pathetic fallacy

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