Wendel Gabrielle L.

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BSED3 ENGLISH

Instruction: Identify the following figures of speech and rhetorical

devices. Write the correct answer (letter and word) on your paper.

 1. She is the apple of my eye. B. Metaphor

A. Simile
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o B. Metaphor
o C. Hyperbole
 2. Father Anthony cried a river of tears. C. Hyperbole
A. Simile
o
o B. Personification
o C. Hyperbole
 3. My mother is like a star in the sky. A. Simile
A. Simile
o
o B. Metaphor
o C. Personification
 4. The trees are dancing together with the wind. A.
Personification
A. Personification
o
o B. Simile
o C. Metaphor
 5. You are the sunshine of my life. A. Metaphor
A. Metaphor
o
o B. Personification
o C. Hyperbole
 6. Necessity is the mother of invention. B. Personification
o A. Eponymy
o B. Personification
o C. Oxymoron
 7. The Titanic was said to be unsinkable but sunk on its very
first voyage. B. Irony
A. Paradox
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o B. Irony
o C. Hyperbole
 8. Let him be rich and weary. A. Paradox
 o A. Paradox
o B. Oxymoron
o C. Hyperbole
 9. So innocent arch, so cunningly simple. B. Oxymoron
o A. Paradox
o B. Oxymoron
o C. Hyperbole
 10. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
C. Hyperbole
o A. Paradox
o B. Personification
o C. Hyperbole
 11. All the world is a stage. A. Metaphor
o A. metaphor
o B. Personification
o C. Hyperbole
 12. The mountains sing together, the hills rejoice and clap
hands. B. Personification
o A. Paradox
o B. Personification
o C. Hyperbole
 13. I desired my dust to be mingled with yours. C. Hyperbole
o A. Paradox
o B. Personification
o C. Hyperbole
 14. The soldiers fight for glory, territory, and a penny a day. B.
Anti-Climax
o A. Climax
o B. Anti-Climax
o C. Hyperbole
 15. I desired my dust to be mingled with yours. C. Hyperbole
o A. Paradox
o B. Personification
o C. Hyperbole
 16. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck B. Assonance
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
 o A. Alliteration
o B. Assonance
o C. Anaphora
o D. Onomatopoeia

 17. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow
followed free. B. Assonance
o A. Alliteration
o B. Assonance
o C. Anaphora
o D. Onomatopoeia

 18. Every single day you let me down. Every single day you
make me mad.
Every single day you do such silly things! C. Anaphora

o A. Alliteration
o B. Assonance
o C. Anaphora
o D. Onomatopoeia

 19. So am I wrong for thinking that we could be something for

real? A. Alliteration
Now am I wrong for trying to reach the things that I can’t
see?

o A. Alliteration
o B. Assonance
o C. Anaphora
o D. Onomatopoeia

 20. How they clang, and crash, and roar! D. Onomatopoeia

o A. Alliteration
o B. Assonance
o C. Anaphora
o D. Onomatopoeia