XI MIPA 1/24 Nadine Christa

Here are the sentences in the figurative languages. Identify and name them.
1. Integrity is the backbone of character. (Metaphor)
2. Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. (Personification)
3. The sea that bears her bosom to the moon.( Personificaation)
4. There is a dagger in thy words. (Metaphor)
5. Beaded bubbles winking at the brim.( Personification)
6. Sunflowers nod in the hot fields and apple buds laughs into blossom.( Personification)
7. I see the waves upon the shore, like light dissolved in star showers thrown. (Simile)
8. Revenge is a kind of wild justice. (Metaphor)
9. Whose armor is his best thought? (Metaphor)
10. Live like a hermit and work like a horse. ( Simile)
11. Sweet actions are the spice of life. (Metaphor)
12. The trees waved their arms in joy. (Personification)
13. ‘Authority forgets a dying king’ is an example of (Personification)
14. ”A lovelier flower on Earth was never sown” has the figure of speech called( Hyperbole)
15. Which figures of speech are employed in this line?
” O Wild west wind, thou breathe of autumn’s being” (Personification)
16. ”Life is but a walking shadow” is an example of (Metaphor)
17. How happy is he here! Is called as (Alliteration)
18. The wish is father to the thought.(Personification)
19. I loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up the
sum. Is called as (Hyperbole)
20. Break, break, break big boulder beside the river. Is called as (Alliteration)
21. She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream. Is called as (Simile)
22. As many farewells as there be stars in heaven. (Hyperbole)
23. When the post says that A is B he employs (Simile)
24. Necessity is the mother of invention ( Personification)
25. The poor people of Ireland should rid themselves of poverty by selling their children to the rich to
eat. (Irony)