Question

Match each element of figurative language with its example.

Column A

1. Symbol

2. Metaphor

3. Simile

4. Hyperbole

5. Understatement

6. Allusion

7. Irony

8. Personification

9. Synecdoche

10. Metonymy

Column B

a. "How now, Mr. Shakespeare, should a poet say what poetry should not express"

b. "The sky is low, the clouds are mean,/A travelling flake of snow/Across a barn or through a rut/Debates if it will go."

c. "One of these days these boots/are gonna walk all over you."

d. "The fog comes/on little cat feet"

e. "Water, water, everywhere,/Nor any (but not a) drop to drink."

f. "And all the lands belong to the crown."

g. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep./But I have promises to keep"

h. "Night falls like a wet sponge"

i. "I think I know enough of hate/To say that for destruction ice/Is also great/And would suffice."

j. "I gazed on the forest and burned/out the sahara desert,/with a packet of goat's meat/and a change of clothes/I crossed it in two hours"

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Symbol - f. "And all the lands belong to the crown."

2. Metaphor - h. "Night falls like a wet sponge"

3. Simile - b. "The sky is low, the clouds are mean,/A travelling flake of snow/Across a barn or through a rut/Debates if it will go."

4. Hyperbole - j. "I gazed on the forest and burned/out the sahara desert,/with a packet of goat's meat/and a change of clothes/I crossed it in two hours"

5. Understatement - e. "Water, water, everywhere,/Nor any (but not a) drop to drink."

6. Allusion - a. "How now, Mr. Shakespeare, should a poet say what poetry should not express"

7. Irony - i. "I think I know enough of hate/To say that for destruction ice/Is also great/And would suffice."

8. Personification - d. "The fog comes/on little cat feet"

9. Synecdoche - c. "One of these days these boots/are gonna walk all over you."

10. Metonymy - g. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep./But I have promises to keep"