Point out what figure of speech is used in each of the following sentences: personification metonymy metaphor parallelism alliteration synecdoche antithesis The place constantly exasperates, at times exhilarates. While sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, pre-empt the air waves form California. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and Hollywood. Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness those fragile sidewalk trees gamely struggling against encroaching cement and petrol fumes. So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that shut out the world. Characteristically, the city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it seriously, regarding it as an unworkable mixture of the idealistic, the impractical, and the hypocritical. The newcomers are never fully absorbed, but are added precariously to the undigested many. To win in New York is to be uneasy; to lose is to live in jostling proximity to the frustrated majority. It is about constant battles for subway seats, for a cabdriver’s or a clerk’s or a waiter’s attention, for a foothold, a chance, a better address, a larger billing. 10. New York was never Mecca to me.