ACTIVITY # 1

Directions: Identify the figures of speech used in the following lines taken from
excerpts of poetry. Write your answers after each statement. (Point System)
1. The moan of doves in immemorial elms, and murmuring of innumerable bees.
2. There is a garden in her face.
3. The school bell called us from outside.
4. Oh Charles, Prince Charles, can you hear my heart break?
5. Next week, my boyfriend and I are headed to the altar.
6. I met him at the reception when he took me for a spin during a slow song.
7. Everything will be easy when all heads are working
8. I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the
brain.
9. If everyone is special, no one is.
10. I think the professor stated his unbiased opinion regarding the student response.
11. It is considered a false truth that a broken mirror means bad luck.
12. Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
13. The sea was angry that day, my friends – like an old man trying to send back soup in
a deli.
14. She is more beautiful than the moon and stars.
15. Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die

16. He was as brave as a lion.