Language Theory and Practice: Test 3 by Dace Amsone, MgSocSc

Thoni Purakkal, group SKA3D1

Highlight in green the correct answer (any other formating will not be counted).

1. ‘When you, my Dear, are away, away, / How wearily c) rhyme

goes the day./ A year drags after morning, and night / Starts
another year’ is … 11. ‘The child with / her infinite energy / would run / her
parents to / the ground’ is …
a) metaphor  
b) simile a) hyperbole        
c) hyperbole b) metaphor  
c) personification   
2. ‘Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue
lapping for action.’ is …
12. ‘My love is like a red, red rose.’ is …
a) metaphor             
b) simile a) onomatopoeia           
c) repetition b) rhyme
c) repetition 
3. ‘Gracefully she sat down sideways, / With a simper
smile’ is … 13. ‘When the stooping sky / Leans down upon the hills’
is …
a) rhyme  
b) personification          a) hyperbole 
c) alliteration  b) metaphor             
c) personification        

4. ‘Drip-hiss-drip-hiss- fall the raindrops’ is … 14. ‘O, ride you fast, yet at the last, /    Hate faster rides,’
is …
a) onomatopoeia         
b) hyperbole           a) personification
c) simile b) metaphor
c) simile
5. ‘The fountain tossed its water, / Up and up, like silver
marbles.’ is … 15. ‘A moment since, the office boy, / Invisible as night, /
Rested on some dim-curtained shelf’ is …
a) simile              
b) hyperbole              a) personification
c) idiom b) metaphor
c) simile
6. ‘Falstaff sweats to death, as he walks along; / Were't
not for laughing, I should pity him.’ is … 16. ‘Would I might mend the tattered fabric of my
youth...’ is …
a) simile           
b) metaphor                     a) simile
c) hyperbole b) metaphor
7. ‘Lives of great men remind us / We can make our c) hyperbole
lives sublime; / And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on
the sands of time.’ is … 17. ‘You need but lift a hand and sigh; /  And all men's
hearts must beat for you.’ is …
a) metaphor                
b) alliteration   a) hyperbole
c) hyperbole b) simile
c) personification
8. ‘His sorrow goes / Like mountain snows / In waters
sweet and clear,’ is … 18. ‘‘The wind and the rain, the wind and the rain / Tinkle
and drip, tinkle and drip-- branches drifting apart. ’ is …
a) repetition
b) hyperbole           a) personification
c) simile   b) simile
c) repetition
9. ‘The tear-drop trickled to his chin: / There was a
meaning in her grin’ is … 19. ‘The burning fire shakes in the night, / Silver candles
gleam, / The trees are lost in dream’ is …
a) simile           
b) rhyme      a) metaphor
c) repetition             b) hyperbole
c) personification
10. ‘All night long with rush and lull / The rain kept
drumming on the roof’ is … 20. ‘My heart is like an apple-tree / Whose boughs are
bent with thick-set fruit’’ is …
a) repetition           
b) personification    a) personification
 b) simile
c) metaphor 31. Litote, i.e. ‘hardly ever’ instead of ‘never’, is a
stylistic device that uses…
21. ‘This is the hardest question that anyone has ever a) overstatement
had to answer’ is … b) understatement
a) hyperbole c) misstatement
b) metaphor
c) simile 32. ‘I had a dream so big and loud, I jumped so high I
touched the clouds’ by American Authors is an example of…
22. ‘The green and greedy seas have drowned / That a) hyperbole
city's glittering walls and towers,’ is … b) axis
a) personification c) triangle
b) metaphor
c) simile 33. ‘Right from the start you were a thief, you stole my
heart and I’m your willing victim’ by Pink is an example of…
23. ‘When they found him dead, /  His hand was cold as a) simile
lead.’ is … b) idiom
a) metaphor c) hyperbole
b) hyperbole
c) simile 34. ‘When it’s going good, it’s going great’ by Eminem is
an example of…
24. ‘Your eyes are a shadowy sea / In the starry darkness a) alliteration
of night’ is … b) assonance
a) metaphor c) consonance
b) personification
c) simile 35. The saying ‘All’s well that ends well’ is an example
of…
a) sibilance
25. ‘The water cradles the reeds’ is …
b) consonance
a) metaphor c) dissonance
b) simile
c) personification 36. ‘Because I’m happy. Clap along if you feel like
happiness is the truth’ by Pharrell Williams is an example of…
26. ‘She looked across the empty street, And saw Death a) irony
softly watching her / In the sunshine pale and sweet’ is … b) cacophony
a) simile c) onomatopoeia
b) personification
c) hyperbole 37. The Christmas carol ‘Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle
all the way’ is an example of…
a) personification
27. ‘See you later, alligator’ is an example of… b) metaphor
a) rhyme c) repetition
b) rythm
c) beat 38. ‘Cause baby, you’re a firework. Come on, show them
what you’re worth’ by Katy Perry is an example of…
28. ‘She looked at the test with suspicion and a a) repetition
magnifying glass’ is an example of b) rhyme
a) zeugma c) metaphor
b) metaphor
c) litote 39. ‘I’m gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket’
by Fergie is an example of…
29. In ‘[So, let’s] set the world on the fire’ the group Fun a) onomatopoeia
use… b) oximoron
a) figurative meaning c) simile
b) literary meaning
c) direct meaning
30. ‘Now you’re in New York, these streets will make you 40. ‘The end is near, this is the end’ is …
feel brand new, big lights will inspire you’ by Alicia Keys is an a) metaphor
example of… b) simile
a) cacophony c) repetition
b) personification
c) simile

The test should be downloaded, filled in, saved with the surname of the student and sent to Dace.Amsone@turiba.lv by 14:25 on
March 25, 2021.