NAME:________________________________________________SECTION:_____________

IDENTIFY THE USED FIGURE OF SPEECH IN THE FOLLOWING LINES AND/OR

VERSES. WRITE YOUR ANSWERS BEFORE EACH NUMBER.
_________1. The cold wind taps my shoulder for a welcome gesture.
_________2. Physical activities have always been my waterloo.
_________3. Cola is not sold in our school cafeteria.
_________4. The indifferent reaction from my friend is old news.
_________5. He cured my illness and my well-being.
_________6. I write songs for you, with you, and about you.
_________7. To have five hungry mouths to feed is a big responsibility.
_________8. Fate, do not lead me on.
_________9. The safest place is the most dangerous one.
_________10. Keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer.
_________11. Hurt you, people do.
_________12. The company I am collaborating with is not a pleasant company.
_________13. I could have drained all the seas in the world for you.
_________14. “Waiting for you is like waiting for a rain in this drought, useless and
disappointing.” – A Cinderella Story
_________15. Like how you loved her and how you were loved back and how I am never
considered
_________16. “It’s a free ride when you’re already paid.” – Alanis Morisette
_________17. Love is short; forgetting is long.
_________18. How could those eyes have never seen me?
_________19. Aren’t you my Lancelot but will I ever be your Elaine?
_________20. Another’s. Even if she is another’s.
_________21. Her voice, her bright body, her infinite eyes
_________22. This be one of the pains that you make me suffer.
This never be the last, excruciating pain.
This be the first, painful poem that I write for you.
_________23. You lose more when you win.
_________24. Have you always been this elusive, confidence?
_________25. You indulge in too much Shakespeare.
_________26. Rosie rose to row and roast.
_________27. The humming of my mother resonates in the kitchen.
_________28. Don’t tell me you’re sorry cashew nut (from Rihanna’s Take a Bow)
_________29. Her digestive system is currently experiencing inconvenience.
(indigestion)
_________30. People are no fools.
_________31. Love for life or life for love
_________32. Do I stay because you it is comfortable, or is it comfortable because you
stay?
_________33. Her faith, a fate; a choice, her chance
_________34. Read to explore and explore to read.
_________35. We do things for happiness. Happiness, however, can mean money and
fame. Fame is fleeting, though.
_________36. How could those eyes never see me?
_________37. You are the three wishes from a genie rolled into one.
_________38. She cannot act naturally.
_________39. Odds bend ends.
_________40. We tried, didn’t we?
Fought, struggled – we
But did not make it, did we?