Nueva York is the city of commotion and mobility. The noise can be so intense that it numbs the senses, and the person who lives in this environment for a long time loses the notion of silence. The torrent of pedestrians and vehicles is endless—streetcars, buses, automobiles, horse-carts, trucks, trains, bicycles, motorcycles, airplanes and wheelbarrows; fire engines, with their high-powered motors and ear-splitting sirens; the shouts of children and adults; the buzz of conversation of the human swarm on the sidewalks; guffaws, curses, cries; the explosion of a backfiring engine; wheels that bump over the rails and rend all tranquility; the spinning of propellers boring thunderously through space; noise, noise, NOISE: New York.
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Which type of figure of speech is used in this excerpt?
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personification
personification
paradox
paradox
metaphor
metaphor
hyperbole
hyperbole
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The two correct answers for the type of figure of speech used in the excerpt are:
The passage employs hyperbole through the exaggerated depiction of noise in New York ("the noise can be so intense that it numbs the senses" and "noise, noise, NOISE: New York"), and it also uses personification in suggesting that the environment itself can make one lose the notion of silence.
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