Figures of Speech

Moon, I am clumsy in these boots.

Loan me a small bird’s feet

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Personifiation

• Imagery

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

• Antithesis

• Chiasmus

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

• Chiasmus

• Synecdoche

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

Janus writes books for women’s liberation;

His wife types up the scripts from his dictations.

• Chiasmus

• Synecdoche

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

O wind, rend open the heat

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Personifiation

• Imagery

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

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Symbol

Your answers are perfectly wrong.

• Chiasmus

• Synecdoche

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

On this scaffold, Thomas More lies dead;

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Personifiation

• Imagery

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.

• Antithesis

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Synesthesia

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

and eternity in an hour.

• Antithesis

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Synesthesia