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Test IV.

Literary Devices

Directions: Identify the literary device/ figure of speech used in the following sentences.

1. The pen is mightier than the sword.

2. How good of you to refuse to help us.

3. Life is like an empty cup, an uncarpeted stairs.

4. I came. I saw. I conquered!

5. O Death! Where is thy sting!

6. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank!

7. He is a walking encyclopedia.

8. A girl stepping out into hurricane says “What a nice weather we are having!”

9. “Lend me your ears!”

10. You are the sunshine of my life.

Test IV. Literary Devices

Directions: Identify the literary device/ figure of speech used in the following sentences.

1. The pen is mightier than the sword.

2. How good of you to refuse to help us.

3. Life is like an empty cup, an uncarpeted stairs.

4. I came. I saw. I conquered!

5. O Death! Where is thy sting!

6. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank!

7. He is a walking encyclopedia.

8. A girl stepping out into hurricane says “What a nice weather we are having!”

9. “Lend me your ears!”

10. You are the sunshine of my life.


Test IV. Literary Devices

Directions: Identify the literary device/ figure of speech used in the following sentences.

Metonymy. The pen is mightier than the sword.

Irony 2. How good of you to refuse to help us.

Metaphor 3. Life is like an empty cup, an uncarpeted stairs.

Climax 4. I came. I saw. I conquered!

Apostrophe 5. O Death! Where is thy sting!

Irony 6. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank!

Metaphor 7. He is a walking encyclopedia.

Irony 8. A girl stepping out into hurricane says “What a nice weather we are having!”

Metonymy 9. “Lend me your ears!”

Metaphor 10. You are the sunshine of my life.

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