WorksheetsACTIVITY 4 - FIGURES OF SPEECH
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.
Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed towards me like Tower of Pisa.
Hyperbole
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.
Suddenly, the room was filled with a deafening silence.
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Personification
Symbolism
Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.
She's a curvy woman.
Euphemism
Irony
Hyperbole
Personification
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
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Irony
Metaphor
Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence.
When he saw a bat in dream, he grew white with fear.
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Hyperbole
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.
Euphemism
Simile
Irony
Onomatopoeia
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
Metaphor
Simile
Symbolism
Hyperbole
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
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Symbolism
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
Personification
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Metaphor
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
Hyperbole
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
