FIGURES OF SPEECH

Are you then Virgil, the fountainhead that pours so full a stream of speech?” I answered him, my head bent low in shame.” O glory and light of all other poets, let my long study and great love avail that made me delve so deep into your volu

O my Luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly play’d in tune. A Red, Red Rose (Robert Burns) A. Simile B. Metaphor C. Pun

TRUE LIES (AMERIAN MOVIE)

“Time Waits for No One” (song by The Rolling Stones) A. Irony B. Personification C. Hyperbole

In wyfhod I wol use myn instrument (In wifehood I will use my instrument) As frely as my Makere hath it sent. (As freely as my Maker has it sent.)- (CANTENBURY TALES - CHAUCER)

A fire station that burns down

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. (Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare)

“Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.” (Scarface)

I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I’ll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry (As I Walked Out One Evening W. H. Auden)

I felt desperate when I saw the buildings cry (Toygar Ege Bulut)

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. ('ROMEO & JULIET - SHAKESPEARE) A. Metaphor B. Allusion C. Metonymy.

Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars Let me see what spring is like on A-Jupiter and Mars… You are all I long for, all I worship and adore (Fly Me To The Moon – Frank Sinatra)

“I am a rock I am an island.” (I Am a Rock by Simon and Garfunkel) A. Simile B. Metaphor C. Pun

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.” (George Carlin) A. Pun B. Oxymoron C. Irony

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances (As You Like It - Shakespeare)

“The first rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club. The second rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.” (Fight Club) A. Oxymoron B. Paradox C. Pun

But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered— Till I scarcely more than muttered