Post by ernesto thaddeus m. solmerano on Jun 13, 2007 20:25:40 GMT -5
Quiz on Figures of Speech
Direction: Identify the figurative language used in the following examples.
1. That money talks
I won’t deny.
I heard it once,
It said, “Goodbye.”
2. Life the hound
Equivocal
Comes at a bound
Either to rend me
Or to befriend me.
I cannot tell
The hound's intent
Till he has sprung
At my bare hand
With teeth or tongue.
Meanwhile I stand
And wait the event.
3. That you must be crippled
to find a parking space
in this world is amazing.
4. Toll for the brave!
The brave that are no more,
All sunk beneath the wave…
5. In the kerchief of linen I caught to my nose
Ah, there never fell snot, but a little gold rose.
6. Sun’s a roaring dandelion, hour by hour.
Sometimes the moon’s a scythe, sometimes a silver flower.
But the stars! All night long the stars are clover,
Over, and over, and over!
7. War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
8. Fame is a bee.
It has a song—
It has a sting—
Ah, too, it has a wing.
9. Bat, bat,
Come under my hat,
And I'll give you a slice of bacon;
And when I bake,
I'll give you a cake
If I am not mistaken.
10. How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
11. Without stirring abroad
One can know the whole world
Without looking out the window
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes
The less one knows.
12. Sir, say no more,
Within me ‘tis as if
The green and climbing eyesight of a cat
Crawled near my mind’s poor birds.
13. "I am unable," yonder beggar cries, "To stand or move!"
If he says true, he lies.
14. Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, tonight!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.
When you have done, pray tell me
That I my thoughts may dim;
Haste! lest while you're lagging.
I may remember him!
15. This love flower fell to seed;
Work gently sun and rain;
She held it as her dying creed
That she would grow again.
16. O wind, rend open the heat,
Cut apart the heat,
Rend it to tatters.
17. Man is mind
cried old Descartes
and Wordsworth answered
Man is heart.
Down a new road
at last we come;
Our cry:
Libido ergo sum.
18. of a man accused
of six ax murders
ended early today
when the defendant
complained of a headache.
19. A collection of white, yellow, red
sailboats - bugs with wings
folded down their backs, in rows.
A tall pin sticks each
to the blue-green mat.
20. How long will it last?
I do not know
his heart.
This morning my thoughts are tangled
as my black hair.
Direction: Identify the figurative language used in the following examples.
1. That money talks
I won’t deny.
I heard it once,
It said, “Goodbye.”
2. Life the hound
Equivocal
Comes at a bound
Either to rend me
Or to befriend me.
I cannot tell
The hound's intent
Till he has sprung
At my bare hand
With teeth or tongue.
Meanwhile I stand
And wait the event.
3. That you must be crippled
to find a parking space
in this world is amazing.
4. Toll for the brave!
The brave that are no more,
All sunk beneath the wave…
5. In the kerchief of linen I caught to my nose
Ah, there never fell snot, but a little gold rose.
6. Sun’s a roaring dandelion, hour by hour.
Sometimes the moon’s a scythe, sometimes a silver flower.
But the stars! All night long the stars are clover,
Over, and over, and over!
7. War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
8. Fame is a bee.
It has a song—
It has a sting—
Ah, too, it has a wing.
9. Bat, bat,
Come under my hat,
And I'll give you a slice of bacon;
And when I bake,
I'll give you a cake
If I am not mistaken.
10. How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
11. Without stirring abroad
One can know the whole world
Without looking out the window
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes
The less one knows.
12. Sir, say no more,
Within me ‘tis as if
The green and climbing eyesight of a cat
Crawled near my mind’s poor birds.
13. "I am unable," yonder beggar cries, "To stand or move!"
If he says true, he lies.
14. Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, tonight!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.
When you have done, pray tell me
That I my thoughts may dim;
Haste! lest while you're lagging.
I may remember him!
15. This love flower fell to seed;
Work gently sun and rain;
She held it as her dying creed
That she would grow again.
16. O wind, rend open the heat,
Cut apart the heat,
Rend it to tatters.
17. Man is mind
cried old Descartes
and Wordsworth answered
Man is heart.
Down a new road
at last we come;
Our cry:
Libido ergo sum.
18. of a man accused
of six ax murders
ended early today
when the defendant
complained of a headache.
19. A collection of white, yellow, red
sailboats - bugs with wings
folded down their backs, in rows.
A tall pin sticks each
to the blue-green mat.
20. How long will it last?
I do not know
his heart.
This morning my thoughts are tangled
as my black hair.