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Figures of Speech

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Moon, I am clumsy in these boots.

Loan me a small bird’s feet

a)

Allusion

b)

Apostrophe

c)

Personifiation

d)

Imagery

2.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

a)

Antithesis

b)

Chiasmus

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Paradox

3.

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

a)

Chiasmus

b)

Synecdoche

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Paradox

4.

Janus writes books for women’s liberation;

His wife types up the scripts from his dictations.

a)

Chiasmus

b)

Synecdoche

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Paradox

5.

O wind, rend open the heat

a)

Allusion

b)

Apostrophe

c)

Personifiation

d)

Imagery

6.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.

a)

Imagery

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Symbol

7.

Your answers are perfectly wrong.

a)

Chiasmus

b)

Synecdoche

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Paradox

8.

On this scaffold, Thomas More lies dead;

a)

Allusion

b)

Apostrophe

c)

Personifiation

d)

Imagery

9.

A little rule, a little sway,

A sun beam on a winter’s day,

Is all the proud and mighty have

Between the cradle and the grave.

a)

Antithesis

b)

Metonymy

c)

Synecdoche

d)

Synesthesia

10.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

and eternity in an hour.

a)

Antithesis

b)

Metonymy

c)

Synecdoche

d)

Synesthesia