Bellwork Figure of Speech

1. O Solitude! Where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face?

what type of figurative language that the statement above?

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Apostrophe

• Personification

Death lays his icy hands on kings

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Apostrophe

• Understatement

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Metonymy

The phrases 'the humming bee', 'the cackling hen', and 'the buzzing saw' are examples of what type of figure of speech?

• synedoche

• irony

• metonymy

• onomatopoeia

George Bush talked during his campaign about 'compassionate conservatism', which to many liberals sounds like a(n)

• Metonymy

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Synecdoche

'My rancher uncle bought 50 head of cattle last week.'

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Pun

• Hyperbole

'Hail divinest Melancholy, whose saintly visage is too bright to hit the sense of human sight.'

• Pun

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe

• Paradox

A rich man is richer than a poor man is an example of what type of figure of speech?

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Pun

• Synecdoche

Pitching pennies with the Pittsburgh Pirates in a pitter-patter of rain outside the Pitti Palace. (James Thurber, Lanterns and Lances, 1961)

• Pun

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."

• Pun

• Irony

• Understatement

• Apostrophe