Post by ernesto thaddeus m. solmerano on Jun 13, 2007 20:24:58 GMT -5
Quiz on Figures of Speech
Direction: Identify the figurative language used in the following examples.
1. Janus writes books for women's liberation;
His wife types up the scripts from his dictation.
2. Moon, I am clumsy in these boots.
Loan me a small bird's feet.
3. A little rule, a little sway,
A sun beam on a winter's day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.
4. Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead
Who would not cut the Body from the Head.
5. A new electric fence,
Its five barbed wires tight
As a steel-stringed banjo.
6. To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
7. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
8. Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow and gold:
Her skin was white as leprosy.
9. We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
10. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
11. Her presence was a roomful of flowers,
Her absence is an empty bed.
12. Western wind, when wilt thou blow,
The small rain down can rain?
Christ, if my love were in my arms,
And I in my bed again!
13. The window screen
is trying to do its crossword puzzle
but appears to know only vertical words.
14. daddy says the world is
a drum tight and hard
and i told him
i'm gonna beat
out my own rhythm
15. The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look at
And see the men at play.
16. Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
17. I am a dove
Whose wings are murder.
My name is love.
18. Because you are old and departing
I have wetted my handkerchief,
You who are homeless at seventy,
belonging to the wilderness.
Anxiously I watch the wind rising as the boat sails away,
A white-headed man amid white-headed waves.
19. Here lie, two poor Lovers, who had the mishap,
Though very chaste people, to die of a Clap.
20. Your answers are perfectly wrong.
Direction: Identify the figurative language used in the following examples.
1. Janus writes books for women's liberation;
His wife types up the scripts from his dictation.
2. Moon, I am clumsy in these boots.
Loan me a small bird's feet.
3. A little rule, a little sway,
A sun beam on a winter's day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.
4. Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead
Who would not cut the Body from the Head.
5. A new electric fence,
Its five barbed wires tight
As a steel-stringed banjo.
6. To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
7. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
8. Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow and gold:
Her skin was white as leprosy.
9. We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
10. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
11. Her presence was a roomful of flowers,
Her absence is an empty bed.
12. Western wind, when wilt thou blow,
The small rain down can rain?
Christ, if my love were in my arms,
And I in my bed again!
13. The window screen
is trying to do its crossword puzzle
but appears to know only vertical words.
14. daddy says the world is
a drum tight and hard
and i told him
i'm gonna beat
out my own rhythm
15. The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look at
And see the men at play.
16. Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
17. I am a dove
Whose wings are murder.
My name is love.
18. Because you are old and departing
I have wetted my handkerchief,
You who are homeless at seventy,
belonging to the wilderness.
Anxiously I watch the wind rising as the boat sails away,
A white-headed man amid white-headed waves.
19. Here lie, two poor Lovers, who had the mishap,
Though very chaste people, to die of a Clap.
20. Your answers are perfectly wrong.