Post by ernesto thaddeus m. solmerano on Jun 13, 2007 20:26:15 GMT -5
Quiz on Figures of Speech
Direction: Identify the figurative language used in the following examples.
1. “Watermelons”
Green Buddhas
On the fruit stand.
We eat the smile
And spit out the teeth.
2. A secret in his mouth is like
A wild bird in a cage,
Whose door no sooner opens,
Than ‘tis out.
3. He says the waves in the ship’s wake
are like stones rolling away.
I don’t see it that way.
But I see the mountain turning,
turning away its face as the ship
takes us away.
4. Like a drummer’s brush,
the rain hushes the surface of tin porches.
5. In gold sandals
dawn like a thief
fell upon me.
6. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity.
7. “Hero and Leander”
Both robbed of air, we both lie in one ground,
Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drowned.
8. Span in high, dark clouds,
Snow forms vast webs of white flakes
And drifts lightly down.
9. My belly is as cold as if I had swallowed
Snowballs for pills to cool the reins.
10. “Half Moon”
The moon goes over the water.
How tranquil the sky is!
She goes scything slowly
the old shimmer from the river;
Meanwhile a young frog
takes her for a little mirror.
11. Tree at my window, window tree,
My sash is lowered when night comes on;
But let there be curtain drawn
Between you and me.
12. I will complain, yet praise;
I will bewail, approve;
And all my sour-sweet days
I will lament and love.
13. Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.
14. I may be blind
but I got my eye on you.
15. These men clothed their land with incorruptible
Glory when they assumed death's misty cloak.
They are not dead in death; the memory
Lives with us, and their courage brings them back.
16. Hair is heaven’s water flowing eerily over us
Often a woman drifts off down her long hair and is lost.
17. The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
18. Tell me not in mournful numbers,
“Life is but an empty dream!”
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
19. John while swimming in the ocean
Rubbed sharks’ backs with suntan lotion.
Now those sharks have skin of bronze
In their bellies—namely, John’s.
20. So smooth, so sweet, so silv’ry is thy voice,
Ah, could they hear, the damned would make no noise,
But listen to thee (walking in thy chamber)
Melting melodious words, to lutes of amber.
Direction: Identify the figurative language used in the following examples.
1. “Watermelons”
Green Buddhas
On the fruit stand.
We eat the smile
And spit out the teeth.
2. A secret in his mouth is like
A wild bird in a cage,
Whose door no sooner opens,
Than ‘tis out.
3. He says the waves in the ship’s wake
are like stones rolling away.
I don’t see it that way.
But I see the mountain turning,
turning away its face as the ship
takes us away.
4. Like a drummer’s brush,
the rain hushes the surface of tin porches.
5. In gold sandals
dawn like a thief
fell upon me.
6. Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity.
7. “Hero and Leander”
Both robbed of air, we both lie in one ground,
Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drowned.
8. Span in high, dark clouds,
Snow forms vast webs of white flakes
And drifts lightly down.
9. My belly is as cold as if I had swallowed
Snowballs for pills to cool the reins.
10. “Half Moon”
The moon goes over the water.
How tranquil the sky is!
She goes scything slowly
the old shimmer from the river;
Meanwhile a young frog
takes her for a little mirror.
11. Tree at my window, window tree,
My sash is lowered when night comes on;
But let there be curtain drawn
Between you and me.
12. I will complain, yet praise;
I will bewail, approve;
And all my sour-sweet days
I will lament and love.
13. Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.
14. I may be blind
but I got my eye on you.
15. These men clothed their land with incorruptible
Glory when they assumed death's misty cloak.
They are not dead in death; the memory
Lives with us, and their courage brings them back.
16. Hair is heaven’s water flowing eerily over us
Often a woman drifts off down her long hair and is lost.
17. The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
18. Tell me not in mournful numbers,
“Life is but an empty dream!”
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
19. John while swimming in the ocean
Rubbed sharks’ backs with suntan lotion.
Now those sharks have skin of bronze
In their bellies—namely, John’s.
20. So smooth, so sweet, so silv’ry is thy voice,
Ah, could they hear, the damned would make no noise,
But listen to thee (walking in thy chamber)
Melting melodious words, to lutes of amber.