figures of speech

The first step in interpreting a simile or metaphor is to...

• decide the important way in which two things might be alike

• reason out the writer's intended meaning

• determine the two things that are being compared

• none of the above

Which of the following is NOT an example of a simile?

• This room is clean as a whistle.

• My mom is busy as a bee.

• He as snug as a bug in a rug.

• The new child is a bad apple.

After hurtling over the handlebars of his mountain bike, the racer tumbled down a rocky hillside, only to land in a bed of cactus. He then rolled over and said, "Boy, am I having a good time!" This illustrates what figure of speech?

• irony

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

Man proposes, God disposes. Which figure of speech is this?

• oxymoron

• antithesis

• irony

• personification

Here is the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. This is

• Apostrophe

• Personification

• Irony

• Hyperbole

Which figure of speech is ‘pretty ugly’ an example of:

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Irony

• Oxymoron

Anger made his blood boil. Which figure of speech is this?

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Similie

ll the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances;" William Shakespeare:

• Metaphor

• Similie

• Personification

which is an idiom?

• The glass broke with a loud bang!

• Have fun like a child

• Your guess is as good as mine

"Still achieving, Still pursuing Learn to labour and to wait" Bring out the words of alliteration.

• achieving-pursuing

• learn-labour

• Still-wait

• Learn-wait