College of Arts and Sciences – English Department

GEE 19 – World Literature QUIZ 1

NAME: _______________________________________________________________________

Direction: Identify the figures of speech and rhetorical devices used in the following lines, taking into consideration
the underlined words, if any.

_______________ 1. Her face is a garden where roses and lilies grow.

_______________ 2. He was troubled with a deep, dark, dank, desperate secret.
_______________ 3. She must be the modern day Helen of Troy.
_______________ 4. All pessimism has a secret optimism for its subject.
_______________ 5. Bullets whizzed or ripped the air and spanged into the tree.
_______________ 6. Three wise old women were they, were they who went to walk on a winter day.
_______________ 7. I give you thanks, Oh nature, because you have given me any high gift.
_______________ 8. Birds are flowers flying, and flowers, perched birds.
_______________ 9. Silence walks the city in her pretty velvet shoes.
_______________ 10. The star is like a diamond up in the sky.
_______________ 11. I had so much homework last night I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home.
_______________ 12. The chug-a, chug-a, chug-a of the train echoed down the hill, while a cloud of smoke rose up
to the blue western sky.
_______________ 13. But the prisoner would not answer, he only lay with wide, dark, bright eyes, like a bound
animal.
_______________ 14. You have a lot of work to do, so I’ll lend you a hand.
_______________ 15. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of
Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before
us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.” (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two
Cities)
_______________ 16. And he was rich, yes, richer than a king,’
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine– we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked and waited for the light,
And went without the meat and cursed the bread,
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet in his head.
(E.A. Robinson, Richard Cory)
_______________ 17. Political Pied Pipers tried everything to win.
_______________ 18. She was so hungry that she even ate the chicken bones.
_______________ 19. The pen is mightier than the sword.
_______________ 20. I am not totally devastated when he left me.