Figures of Speech Test #2

Now that it’s raining more than ever

Know that we’ll still have each other

You can stand under my umbrella…

• personification

• metaphor

• symbol

• simile

I see colors when I hear your voice

• metonymy

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• synesthesia

And they always slept better with blades

beneath their beds.

• alliteration

• onomatapoeia

• assonance

• metaphor

You're hot when you're cold, You're yes

then you're no, You're wrong when it's right.

• peronification

• imagery

• situational irony

• paradox

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are.

• rhetorical question

• symbol

• apostrophe

• hyperbole

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.

• symbol

• allusion

• metaphor

• paradox

Mouth is alive with juices like wine.

And I’m hungry like the wolf.

• litote

• symbol

• simile

• metaphor

I only wanna die alive.

• hyperbole

• irony

• oxymoron

• symbol

Ebony and ivory

Live together in perfect harmony

Side by side on my piano keyboard

Oh lord, why don't we?

• metaphor

• metonymy

• synecdoche

• symbol

Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles

If I could just see you tonight.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metonymy

• litote