Figures of Speech
Check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
1. What is a figure of speech?
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2. Which type of figure of speech makes a comparison between things that are ordinarily unlike one another?
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3. According to the speaker of Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Presentiment—is that long Shadow—on the lawn.” This line is an example of
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4. In the lines “The grave’s fine and private place, / But none, I think, do there embrace” from Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” what figure of speech is the speaker using to persuade his lover?
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5. When Dylan Thomas writes “The hand that signed the paper felled a city” in the opening line of “The Hand That Signed the Paper,” he uses the hand as a synecdoche for
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