FIGURES OF SPEECH

Identify the correct figure of speech for each statement. Tick the circle
corresponding to the correct answer.

1. "Her smile shines like the sun." What 6. "Time flies when you're having fun."
figure of speech is used in this sentence? What figure of speech is used?
a) Simile a) Simile
b) Metaphor b) Metaphor
c) Personification c) Personification

2. "The stars danced in the night sky." 7. "The pen is mightier than the sword."
What figure of speech is used in this What figure of speech is used in this
sentence? sentence?
a) Simile a) Allusion
b) Metaphor b) Antonomasia
c) Personification c) Metaphor

3. "O, Death, be not proud." What 8. "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou
figure of speech is used in this sentence? Romeo?" What figure of speech is used?
a) Apostrophe a) Simile
b) Allusion b) Metaphor
c) Antonomasia c) Apostrophe

4. "The wind whispered through the 9. "Winter is coming." What figure of

trees." What figure of speech is used in speech is used in this sentence?
this sentence? a) Simile
a) Simile b) Metaphor
b) Metaphor c) Personification
c) Personification
10. "He was known as the 'father of
"The city that never sleeps." What figure modern physics'." What figure of
of speech is used in this sentence? speech is used in this sentence?
a) Allusion a) Apostrophe
b) Antonomasia b) Allusion
c) Metaphor c) Antonomasia