Figurative language and tone in poetry

V. Moore

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Answer the questions below.

  1. In Silvia Plath's poem "The Mirror", she makes a mirror speak and act. This is an example of what?
  2. Your answer:
    Personification
    Metaphor
    Alliteration
    Simile


  3. A metaphor and simile are both used as a means of comparing things that are essentially unlike.
  4. Your answer:
    TrueFalse


  5. Figurative language can be taken literally.
  6. Your answer:
    TrueFalse


  7. Which one is not a metaphor?
  8. Your answer:
    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


  9. Which one is not a simile?
  10. Your answer:
    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.


  11. In a metaphor comparision is implied and in simile comparison is expressed.
  12. Your answer:
    TrueFalse


  13. Which one is not an example of alliteration?
  14. Your answer:
    tried and true
    fish or fowl
    mad as a hatter
    rime or reason


  15. The repetition of initial consonant sounds is called alliteration.
  16. Your answer:
    TrueFalse


  17. Find the quotation that is literal.
  18. Your answer:
    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.


  19. Metaphor, simile and personification are examples of figures of speech.
  20. Your answer:
    TrueFalse



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