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ACTIVITY 4 - FIGURES OF SPEECH

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.


Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed towards me like Tower of Pisa.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Metaphor

2.

Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.


Suddenly, the room was filled with a deafening silence.

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Symbolism

3.

Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.


She's a curvy woman.

a)

Euphemism

b)

Irony

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

4.

Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.


...and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever the sun will always sing is you.

- E.E Cummings, I Carry Your Heart with Me

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Irony

d)

Metaphor

5.

Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.


When he saw a bat in dream, he grew white with fear.

a)

Symbolism

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Metaphor

d)

Hyperbole

6.

Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.


Dengvaxia was a vaccine to make children immune from dengue. Turns out, the vaccine was recalled for some unsafety concerns.

a)

Euphemism

b)

Simile

c)

Irony

d)

Onomatopoeia

7.

Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.


I'll love you, dear, I'll love you

Till China and Africa meet,

And the river jumps over the mountain

- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Come Down, O Maid

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Symbolism

d)

Hyperbole

8.

Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.


Her mouth was a fountain of delight.

And when he possessed her, they

seemed to swoon together at the very

borderland of life's mystery.

- Kate Chopin, The Storm

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Symbolism

9.

Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.


Pearl Button swung on the little gate in front of the House of Boxes. It was the early afternoon of a sunshiny day with the little winds playing hide-and-seek in it.

- William Shakespeare, How Pearl Button was Kidnapped

a)

Personification

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Symbolism

d)

Metaphor

10.

Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.


The moan of doves in immemorial elms

And murmuring of innumerable bees.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Come Down, O Maid

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Metaphor