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Answer Key Figures of Speech

This document contains a series of questions about figures of speech, including definitions and examples. The questions test identification of figures including metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, irony, and others. Key terms involve attributing human qualities to objects (personification), implied comparisons using "like" or "as" (simile), direct comparisons using "is" (metaphor), deliberate exaggeration (hyperbole), and implied meanings that are the opposite of the literal meaning (irony).

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Answer Key Figures of Speech

This document contains a series of questions about figures of speech, including definitions and examples. The questions test identification of figures including metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, irony, and others. Key terms involve attributing human qualities to objects (personification), implied comparisons using "like" or "as" (simile), direct comparisons using "is" (metaphor), deliberate exaggeration (hyperbole), and implied meanings that are the opposite of the literal meaning (irony).

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1-Rivers of blood flowed on the battlefield

A-Hyperbole

B-Alliteration

C-Simile

D-Metaphor

2-Camel is the ship of the desert

A-Metaphor

B-Simile

C-Pun

D-Personification

3-O my love’s like a red red rose

A-Simile

B-Metaphor

C-Alliteration

D-Hyperbole

4-”Opportunity knock at the door but once”.

A-Personification

B-Metaphor

C-Simile

D-PUN

5-”Death lays his icy hand on Kings”

A-Personification

B-Hyperbole

C-Antithesis

D-Metaphor

 
7-”Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour”

A-Apostrophe

B-Alliteration

C-Irony

D-Oxymoron

8-HOw high his honor hold his haughty head

A-Alliteration

B-Irony

C-Personification

D-Oxymoron

9-”Yet Brutus says he was ambitious. And Brutus is an honorable man.”

A-Irony

B-Oxymoron

C-Apostrophe

D-None

10-Is life worth living? That depends upon the liver.

A-Metonymy

B-Metaphor

C-Simile

D-Irony

12-A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire.

A-Alliteration

B-Metonymy

C-Metaphor

D-Antithesis

 
13-”The plowman homeward plods his weary way.”

A-Transferred Epithet

B-Oxymoron

C-Synecdoche

D-Pun

14-To err is human to forgive divine

A-Antithesis

B-Pun

C-Oxymoron

D-Transferred Epithet

15-He passed a sleepless night.

A-Transferred Epithet

B-Antithesis

C-Synecdoche

D-Oxymoron

17-I have many mouths to feed

A-Synecdoche

B-Irony

C-Pun

D-Oxymoron

19-O Death! Where is thy sitting?

A-Apostrophe

B-Personification

C-Oxymoron

D-Metaphor
 

20-”Life is a tale told by an Idiot,

A-Metaphor

B-Onomatopoeia

C-Metaphor

D-Personification

21-”Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.”

A-Simile

B-Onomatopoeia

C-Metaphor

D-Personification

22-He can devour mountains of food, and drink rivers of whisky.

A-Hyperbole

B-Metaphor

C-Personification

D-Onomatopoeia

23-”There honor comes a pilgrim grey

A-Personification

B-Apostrophe

C-Metaphor

D-Pun

26-His honor rooted in dishonor stood

A-Oxymoron

B-Irony

C-Pun
D-Antithesis

27-”Sceptre and crown must tumble down”

A-Metonymy

B-Antithesis

C-Irony

D-Oxymoron

28-A lie has not legs

A-Personification

B-Irony

C-Pun

D-Apostrophe

29-Youth is full of pleasure Age is full of care

A-Antithesis

B-Pun

C-Metaphor

D-Personification

30-The righteous shall flourish like the palm trees

A-Simile

B-Antithesis

C-Transferred Epithet

D-None

31-What figure of speech is used when a statement is made emphatic by overstatement?

A-Hyperbole

B-Personification

C-Antithesis

D-Apostrophe
 

32-What figure of speech used when two contradictory qualities are predicted at once of the same
thing?

A-Oxymoron

B-Hyperbole

C-Onomatopoeia

D-Antithesis

33-In which figure of speech the sense is conveyed by the sound of words?

A-Onomatopoeia

B-Alliteration

C-Synecdoche

D-Metonymy

35-Which figure of speech is produced when the same sound is repeated more than twice at the
begging of a word

A-Alliteration

B-Metonymy

C-Synedoche

D-None

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