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English 12 Public

Answer the following questions.

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"Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die" What is the figure of speech?

Personification/ Metaphor

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"But a tyrant spell has bound me" Identify the figure of speech.

Metaphor

15

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" Identify the sound device.

Alliteration "Formal Feeling"

15

What is "rhyme"? give an example of two rhyming words.

Card / Yard or Clay / Day

15

"blowing here and blowing there". What is the figure of speech?

contrast

15

"And like the cat I have nine times to die." Identify the figure of speech.

Simile

15

"And sings the tune without the words," Find a sound device.

Alliteration

15

"Nobody can defeat me, Because I am a sword." Identify the figure of speech.

Metaphor

15

"I wandered lonely as a cloud". Identify a figure of speech.

Simile

15

Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. "Find a sound device".

trees/ breeze or Fluttering / dancing or beside / beneath

15

“Family is the backbone” Identify the figure of speech.

Metaphor

15

"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" Find a sound device.

Repetition

15