- In Silvia Plath's poem "The Mirror", she makes a mirror speak and act. This is an example of what?
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Personification
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
- A metaphor and simile are both used as a means of comparing things that are essentially unlike.
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TrueFalse
- Figurative language can be taken literally.
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TrueFalse
- Which one is not a metaphor?
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Lo, how I hold mine arms abroad
Beauty is but a flower
Life the hound
The bud drowned in the seas of distrust and envy
- Which one is not a simile?
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Hope, like the hyena, coming to be old.
Love in my bosom like a bee
He died true to his character, drunk as a lord
Our fig-tree, that leaned for the saltness, has furled her five fingers.
- In a metaphor comparision is implied and in simile comparison is expressed.
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TrueFalse
- Which one is not an example of alliteration?
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tried and true
fish or fowl
mad as a hatter
rime or reason
- The repetition of initial consonant sounds is called alliteration.
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TrueFalse
- Find the quotation that is literal.
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The tawny-hided desert crouches watching her.
Joy and temperance and repose slam the door on her nose.
The pen is mightier than the sword
Dorothy's eyes, with their long brown lashes, looked very much like her mother's.
- Metaphor, simile and personification are examples of figures of speech.
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TrueFalse