My Mother at Sixty-six (Figure of Speech)

My Mother at Sixty-six (Figure of Speech)

Quiz

 

1. To Cochin last Friday morning
   1.   Simile
   2.   Assonance
   3.   Personification
   4.   Repetition
2. a. doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that
   of a corpse
   1.   Simile
   2.   Personification
   3.   Metaphor
   4.   Pun
3. b. doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that
   of a corpse
   1.   Pun
   2.   Metaphor
   3.   Personification
   4.   Assonance
4. a. the merry children spilling
   1.   Transferred epithet
   2.   Chremamorphism
   3.   Onomatopoeia
   4.   Personification
5. b. Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes
   1.   Hyperbole
   2.   Onomatopoeia
   3.   Imagery
   4.   Irony
6. c. the merry children spilling out of their homes
   1.   Irony
   2.   Hyperbole
   3.   Oxymoron
   4.   Metaphor
7. she was as old as she looked but soon
   put that thought away, and looked out
   1.   Alliteration
   2.   Repetition
   3.   Irony
   4.   Metaphor
8. as a late winter’s moon
   1.   Metaphor
   2.   Personification
   3.   Alliteration
   4.   Simile
9. all I did was smile and smile and smile......
   1.   Repetition
   2.   Alliteration
   3.   Assonance
   4.   Consonance
10. that she was as old as she looked but soon
    put that thought away, and looked out at Young
    Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes,
    1.   Consonance
    2.   Alliteration
    3.   Comparision
    4.   Personification
11. Young trees sprinting
    
    
    
    
    1.   Contrast
    2.   Simile
    3.   Personification
    4.   Assonance