figures of speech (2)

Test 1

V. Identify the figures of speech in the following sentences and give the correct terms in English for each of the italicized parts. (10 points)

1. They did not reopen the Pandora’s Box they had peeked into in 1972.

2. The ship spread its wings to the breeze.

3. The pen is mightier than the sword.

4. The letter, short, cold, sharp-tongued, was unexpected.

5. Two heads are better than one.

6. Lord Darlington. I couldn’t help it, I can resist everything except

temptation.

7. She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

8. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

9. Row, row, row your boat,

Gently down the stream,

Merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is interesting.

10. “Would you please please please please please please please stop talking.”

Key to test 1

1. allusion `2. metaphor synecdoche

3. metonymy 4.parallelism 5.

6. anticlimax repetition

7. hyperbole 8. paradox 9. alliteration 10.

Test 2

V. Identify the figures of speech in the following sentences and give the correct terms in English for each of the italicized parts. (10 points)

1. Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.

2. He chose the gun instead of the cap and gown.

3. This is the man who has stirred three hundred million people to revolt, who

has shaken the foundations of the British Empire, and who has introduced into human politics the strongest religious impetus of the last two thousand years.

4. Did you see the anger of the tempest?

5. She looked both young and aging, as if she had just emerged from an illness or some crisis.

6. No eye saw him, but a second later every ear heard a gunshot.

7. David was a great statesman, a great warrior, a great poet, and a skillful performer on the harp.

8. They talked and laughed and shouted, and there was the clatter of knives and forks, and strange sounds of eating.

9. There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

10. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it.

Key to Test 2

1. allusion simile

2. metonymy 3. parallelism 4. personification 5.

6. synecdoche understatement

7. anticlimax 8. climax 9. paradox 10.

Test 3

V. Identify the figures of speech in the following sentences and give the correct terms in English for each of the italicized parts. (10 points)

1. The United Stated is raising a Frankenstein by providing hardware to that country.

2. Diplomacy is the art of putting your feet down without stepping on anybody’s toes.

3. A hundred bayonets were marching down the street.

4. Brutus. … As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.

5. A pale oval face came forward into the light.

6. The duties of a soldier are to protect his country and peel potatoes.

7. He was a little thinner, a little whiter, a little more austere; he was autocratic still and still disapproved of candles on altar.

8. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

9. The two girls, Anne and Mary, would gladly have stayed and helped the maid get dinner, only it seemed such a pity to, on a lovely day like this, having their new hats.

10. In marrying this girl he married a bit more than he could chew.

Key to test 3

1. allusion synecdoche

2. metaphor 3. metonymy 4. parallelism 5.

6. anticlimax 7. climax 8. simile or sarcasm 9.

understatement 10. parody

Test 4

V. Identify the figures of speech in the following sentences and give the correct terms in English for each of the italicized parts. (10 points)

1 . Cowperwood, after his Herculean labor of the morning, had, as has been said, driven rapidly to Butler’s house….

2. I’ve got one of my Sahara thirsts on tonight.

3. Every school needs a head.

4. I learned it through the lips of my friend.

5. Furious, she yelled and threw herself onto the floor, disregarding her honour, the sneer of those around, and her new dress.

6. I am sorry, I am so sorry, I am so extremely sorry.

7. AHHHH, the jet age. Breakfast in Paris, dinner in H.K., luggage in Peoria.

8. That’s a fine excuse.

9. She did not enjoy the best reputation.

10. “Bennie’s their son,” said Henry.

“Like son, like father, I imagine,” said Bonnefois, …

Key to Test 4

1. allusion anticlimax

2. metaphor 3. metonymy 4. synecdoche 5.

6. climax parody

7. hyperbole 8. irony 9. understatement 10.

Test 5

V. Identify the figures of speech in the following sentences and give the correct terms in English for each of the italicized parts. (10 points)

1. He is a frugal man, the furnishings of his home are truly Spartan.

2. They kept down the number of useless mouths.

3. The drunkard smashed the glasses, upturned the table, and hit an old man.

4. The trains flowed like a torrent of diamonds towards the interior

5. The American society saw a gnawing poverty during the years of the Great Depression.

6. There happy masks that kiss fair ladies’s brows.

Being black, put us in mind they hide the fair…

7. His eloquence would split rocks.

8. Beware of the bottle.

9. What a noble illustration of the tender laws of his favored country!----they let the paupers go to sleep.

10. Happy, happy pair

None but the brave, None but the brave None but the brave deserves the fair., Key to test 5

1. allusion epithet

2. synecdoche 3. climax 4. similie 5. transferred

6. personification 6. hyperbole 8. metonymy 9. irony 10. repetition

Test 6

V. Identify the figures of speech in the following sentences and give the correct terms in English for each of the italicized parts. (10 points)

1. These odysseys were not purely escapism. They were also calisthenics for the future,…

2. Yet there were some stout hearts who attempted resistance.

3. Not for about 100 years had Britain witnessed such a miserable April,

replete with blizzards, rainstorms and ---finally --- flooding.

4. I have never been mugged or physically molested in any way, possibly because my large build does not make me an ideal prospect for a hoodlum.

5. In economics all roads lead to socialism.

6. some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be

chewed and digested.

7. The old man lay all night on the sleepless bed.

8. My left leg weighs three tons.

9. He has a good ear for music.

10. He bellowed like a bull seeking combat.

Key to Test 6

1. allusion 2. synecdoche 3. climax 4. irony 5. parody

6. metaphor 7. transferred epithet 8. hyperbole 9.metonymy 10.similie

Test 7

V. Identify the figures of speech in the following sentences and give the correct terms in English for each of the italicized parts. (10 points)

1. France, however, turned a deaf ear to what Thiers flattered himself to be a parliamentary siren’s song.

2. Still, if all hands had been got together, they would not have more than half filled the room.

3. He closed his busy life at the age of 90.

4. I just adore mosquitoes.

5. Wine was thinker than blood to the Mondavi brothers, who feuded bitterly

over control of the family business, Charles Krug Winery.

6. …s man who had lived and learnt, after his fashion, to let live. 7. The point is , does Prince Charming find Sleeping beauty?

8. At last the engine began to wake, grumble, fall asleep and wake again. 9. A nervous silence was followed by nervous laughter.

10. The smoke was so thick that the goats sneezed seven miles away.

Key to Test 7

1. allusion parody

2. synecdoche 3. transferred epithet 4. irony 5.

6. alliteration 7. metonymy 8. personification 9. transferred

epithet 10. hyperbole

Test 8

V. Identify the figures of speech in the following sentences and give the correct terms in English for each of the italicized parts. (10 points)

1. They did not reopen the Pandora’s Box they had peeked into in 1972.

2. There were several big names at the party.

3. In the post we’ve been extremely critical of those who reside on the fence and smile benignly at both sides.

4. She’s as thin as six o’clock. 5. Rivers of rain ran down the window behind him.

6. They’re busy, they postpone. That’s bad. The bowel gets discouraged, tired of trying…

7. Above the hostile shoulder of Luigi, Brenda saw Rossi’s face at the window of the office.

8. “I’m annoyed , I’m freezing,” Alice snapped. “I’ve got goose bumps the size of oranges.”

9. Nobody had been affected by the death of Catherine Broward, the murder of Lydia Marks, the shooting on the beach, the disappearance of Diane Fleming…

10. She saw Lucas coming and screamed, “She went that way, she went that way, she’s in the trees. She ‘s in the trees, she shot John, call an ambulance.”

Key to Test 8

1. allusion 2. synecdoche 3. parody 4. similie 5. metaphor

6. personification 7.transferred epithet 8. hyperbole repetition.

9. parallelism 10.