Directions: Identify the figure of speech, explain and justify its use.
1. Feudalism is the winter or discontent in the countryside.
2. Our Father, who art in Heaven . . . .
3. Throw the book to the coup plotters.
4. “My love sprang from my only hate!”
5. He courted her, she answered “yes”,they eloped.
6. Mr. Cruz is as quiet as a politician.
7. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” (Shelley)
8. There is emptiness in wholeness. (From Taoism)
9. Her speech is a newly sharpened scythe.
10. “Oh, Romeo, wherefore art thou my Romeo?”
11. The U.N Forum is a tower of Babel.
12. The baby is a bundle of fat.
13. “The child is Father to the Man.” (Wordsworth)
14. “Oh Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name?” (Madame
Roland)
15. “I am thy Lord and God, thou shalt not worship strange gods before
Me!”
16. The night has a thousand eyes.
17. Hearing the gossip spread about her, Rosa flew into a rage.
18. She stamped her foot, banged the door, and pounded the table.
19. No comment.
20. “If you prick us, do we not bleed?” (Shylock)
21. Address tjat question to the chair.
22. The Hermit Kingdom is divided into two by the 38th parallel.
23. “For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of my bride, my darling, Annabel Lee”. (Poe)
24. “Eggheads of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your
yokes!”
25 that man is a Hamlet, it takes him eternity to decide.