Name: Carloui R.

Cruz Date:10/10/2020
Course/year/section: BSECE-III

ACTIVITY 4
Instructions:
Test your knowledge in figure of speech by identifying each item below. Write your answer
on the space provided.

Personification 1. The window screen is trying to do its crossword puzzle but appears
to know only vertical words.

Hyperbole 2. My sister uses so much make up that when she takes it off, my mom
doesn’t recognize her.

Apostrophe 3. I am afraid of you, yellow moon.

Oxymoron 4. I’ll give you a definite maybe.

Metaphor 5. Life is but an empty dream.

Simile 6. The stages of love are like tapping stones to death.

Metaphor 7. Her presence was a roomful of flowers but her absence is an empty
bed.

Synecdoche 8. I drove my mother’s wheel to the party.

Oxymoron 9. It was his exact estimate.

Hyperbole 10. Your face is as big as a seed.

Apostrophe 11. Happiness when will you visit me.

Personification 12. In the evening, the river winds take the village.

Allusion 13. The pendulum is a thing of dread to nervous persons like me,
it reminds one of swaying Iscariot – suspended from a tree.

Irony 14. I like your dress, it seems like you’ve been to a carnival.

Metonymy 15. A man more right than his neighbor constitutes a majority of one.