Figures of Speech

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English
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9th - 12th Grade
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Krishanu Biswas
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which figure of speech is present in "a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk"
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
Synecdoche
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
When the poet says "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense" what figure is he using?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Transferred Epithet
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In the expression "lethe-wards had sunk" which rhetorical device is used?
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Allusion
Allegory
4.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which figure of speech is used in "light-winged Dryad of the trees"
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Identify the figure of speech in "Tasting of Flora and the country green / Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth".
Inversion
Hyperbole
Imagery
Allegory
6.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which figure(s) can be found in "beaded bubbles winking at the brim"?
Alliteration
Personification
Hypallage
Hyperbole
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Identify the figure of speech in "the blushful Hippocrene".
Allegory
Synecdoche
Inversion
Allusion
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