Question

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

Answer 1

Not sure if I’m right but: Euphemism is to say one thing in terms of another in a nicer way.
So 1 is idiom because it is not a euphemism.
Oxymorons are two contradicting ideas used in conjunction, so 2 is allusion.
Simile uses like or as, so 3 is a metaphor
I don’t think 4 is a euphemism but I don’t know what malapropism is.

Hope this helped! :)