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. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
2. Only the knife can save him.
3. 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.
4. The sun smiled down on the green meadows.
5.O, my luve is like a red red rose
That newly sprung in June:
O, my luve is like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.
6.That murderer has been put into the condemne d cell.
7. My car was stolen, my house burned down, and I forgot to tie my shoes.
8.For many are called, but few are chosen.
9.You could shave with the razor-sharp crease in his trousers.
10.Who does not love his country?
Key to test 1
1. metaphor
2. metonymy
3. parallelism
4. personification
5. simile
6. transferred epithet
7. anticlimax
8. antithesis
9. exaggeration(hyperbole)
10.rhetorical question
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.S he sells sea-shells on the seashore.
2.Holding the muleta, with the sword in his left hand widening it in front of him, he called to
the bull.
The bull looked at him.
He leaned back insultingly and shook the widespread flannel.
The bull saw the muleta ….
3.Didn’t I tell you he would forget?
4. The more haste, the less speed.
5.Edna. … My feet are absolutely killing me.
6.It was the ruin of the family, the uprooting of morals, the destruction of Germany.
7.And then with his next words he achieved rank (as his thoughts ran) with either the great
crowd of the world’s sympathizers or the little crowd of its great financiers.
8.He is now again seated in his usual sleepy corner.
9.He was a beautiful horse that looked as though he had come out of a painting by Velasquez.
10.The wind whistled through the trees.
Key to Test 2
1. alliteration
2. repetition
3. rhetorical question
4. paradox
5. hyperbole
6. climax
7. antithesis
8. transferred epithet
9. simile 10. personification
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. Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.
2.The press is becoming more and more the vehicle of opinion.
3.He pulled his head back into the bedroom, looked around, saw his jacket, picked it up and put
it on.
4.Dawn was beginning to prowl about the sky and put out the stars.
5.The full green hills are round and soft as breasts.
6.He passed many an anxious hour in the train.
7.Alas! Alas! What shall I do? I’ve lost my wife and best hat, too.
8. A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
9.I’ve told you hundreds of times not to leave the door open.
10.Predictably the winter will be snowy, sleety, and slushy.
Key to test 3
1. metaphor
2. metonymy
3. parallelism
4. personification
5. simile
6. transferred epithet
7. anticlimax
8. antithesis
9. hyperbole 10. alliteration
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.He sat on a log, the invisible compass in his invisible hand, …
2.The f lakes were f alling thick and hard now, p ouring p ast the window, a w aterfall of mystery.
3.The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
4. Yet, those who have eyes apparently see little. The panorama of color and action which fills the
world is taken for granted.
5.She told him he was cold and selfish and ungrateful.
6.The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what
they did here.
7.Above us hung a sullen sky.
8.As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
9.Can’t you just see Success, Health, and Happiness beckoning to you?
10.He was too fond of the bottle.
Key to test 4
1. repetition
2. alliteration
3. rhetorical question
4. paradox
5. climax
6. antithesis
7. transferred epithet
8. simile
9. personification 10. metonymy
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. Military glory is a bubble blown from blood.
2.He remembered the bitterness of his life at school, the humiliation which he had endured, the
banter which had made him morbidly afraid of making himself ridiculous; …
3.The ancient wilderness dreamed, stretched itself all open to the sun, and seemed to sigh with
immeasurable content.
4.He crashed down on a protesting chair.
5.She fears thunder and lightning, she fears dogs and cats, she fears moths and caterpillars.
6.Brutus. …If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer:
---Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more…
7.All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than other.
8.Is that a reason for despair?
9.The f air b reeze b lew, the white f oam f lew,
The f urrow f ollowed f ree;
We were the f irst that ever b urst
10.There she stretched, growing warmer and warmer, sleepier and sleepier.
Key to test 5
1. metaphor
2. parallelism
3. personification
4. transferred epithet
5. anticlimax
6. antithesis
7. paradox
8. rhetorical question
9. alliteration 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.Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere
Nor any drop to drink.
2. Holofernes. …
The p reyful p rincess p ierc’d and p rick’d p retty p leasing p ricket;
Some say a sore; but not a sore, till now made sore with shooting. …
3.What difference does it make?
4.In fact, it appears that the teachers of English teach English so poorly largely because they
teach grammar so well.
5.Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smiled, and the world was gay.
6.Social position, friends, reputation, life itself, had no longer any attraction for him.
7.I know not what course others may take: but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
8.No footmarks could be found on the virgin snow.
9.It was ornamented by a small brass sign, and seemed to be the entrance to a vast hive of six or
seven floors.
10.She was taken with his good looks, his well-cut clothes, his voice, his gaiety.
Key to test 6
1. repetition
2. alliteration
3. rhetorical question
4. paradox
5. hyperbole
6. climax
7. antithesis
8. transferred epithet
9. simile 10. parallelism
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. A policeman waved me out of the snake of traffic and flagged me to a stop.
2.She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
3.The fly does not care whether it is king or clown whom he teases.
4.Clad in his nightshirt, his neck poked forward, his back rounded, he resembled some long
white bird.
5.On his sick bed he summoned his sons and daughters into his presence.
6.At one fell swoop, he lost his wife, his child, his household goods and his dog.
7.Travel in the young sort, is a part of education: in the elder, a part of experience.
8. Come, for a ll the vales
Awai t thee, a zure pillars of the hearth
Arise to thee. …
9.Break, break, break
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.
10.The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Key to test 7
1. metaphor
2. parallelism
3. personification
4. simile
5. transferred epithet
6. anticlimax
7. antithesis
8. alliteration
9. repetition 10. paradox
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. He has the microwave smile that warms another person without heat.
2.Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.
3.Their powers of conversation were considerable. They could describe an entertainment with
accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit.
4.The little goose, delighted that people were again kind and respectful to her, waddled down to
the gate, making happy noise.
5.Huddled in her grey fur against the sofa cushions, she had a strange resemblance to a captive
owl, bunched in its soft feathers against the wires of a cage.
6.An awed hush fell upon the bystanders.
7.The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor
power to add or detract.
8.The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
9.Wild M ushrooms: M ysterious M enacing---M agnificent.
10. You’ve got us into a nice mess.
Key to test 8
1. metaphor
2. metonymy
3. parallelism
4. personification
5. simile
6. transferred epithet
7. antithesis
8. paradox
9. alliteration 10. irony