Cycle 8 Meeting 2: Figures of Speech

Multiple Choice

It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped, And whirr when it stood still. I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will.”

                       -  The Marvelous Toy  (Tom Paxton)

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,

      The furrow followed free;

      We were the first that ever burst

      Into that silent sea.”

                       - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

  

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• alliteration

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Just a fool to believe

I have anything she needs

She’s like the wind.

                                            - She’s like the Wind (Patrick Swayze)

  

• metonymy

• synecdoche

• metaphor

• simile

Multiple Choice

Maybe you've told a joke only to get deafening silence in response.

  

• metonymy

• synecdoche

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

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