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figures-of-speech

Q1. What figure of speech is used in the given line? I  walked along the lonely road. 
Synecdoche  
Transferred Epithet  
Metonymy  
Personification  
Q2. Identify the figures of speech in the given lines. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Apostrophe and Repetition
Anticlimax and Repetition
Apostrophe and Tautology
Hyperbole and Euphemism
Q3. What are the figures of speech used in these two lines? You won yourself a free gift. Can you kindly repeat it again?
Tautology
Alliteration
Alliteration and Tautology
None of the above
Q4. Identify the figure of speech in the sentence. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Synecdoche
Metaphor
Irony
Oxymoron
Q5. Identify the figures of speech in the sentence. Is a bitter sweet symphony, this life.
Synecdoche, Personification and Oxymoron
Antithesis and Inversion
Antithesis, Inversion and Metaphor
Inversion, Oxymoron and Metaphor
Q6. Identify the figure of speech in the sentence. His character is as clean as a pig sty.
Simile
Metaphor and Simile
Simile and Irony
Irony
Q7. Identify the figure of speech in the sentence. Cowards die many times before their deaths.
Metonymy
Hyperbole
Apostrophe
Personification
Q8. Identify the figures of speech in the given lines. Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?
Alliteration
Alliteration and Personification
Alliteration and Simile
Alliteration and Metaphor
Q9. Identify the figures of speech in the sentences. There are three things that will endure: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 
Alliteration and Anticlimax
Alliteration and Climax
Tautology and Climax
Tautology and Anticlimax
Q10. Identify the figures of speech in the given lines. I heard a growl in the middle of the night, Soon it turned into a whimper, Then a sorrowful sigh, Then I heard it no more.
Only Alliteration
Alliteration and Anticlimax
Only Anticlimax
Pun, Anticlimax and Inversion



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