Lingua inglesa estrutura Sintática 10

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1.
		 
Choose the best figure of speech:
O Western wind, when wilt thou blow
That the small rain down can rain?
Christ, that my love were in my arms,
And I in my bed again!(Anonymous, 'O Western Wind')
	
	
	
	(e) irony
	
	
	(c) apostrophe
	
	
	(a) pleonasm
	
	
	(b) antithesis
	
	
	(d) anaphora
	
	
	 
		
	
		2.
		Choose the one figure that is most clearly illustrated by the short passage.¿"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."(Martin Luther King, Jr., speech at St. Louis, 1964)¿
	
	
	
	Hyperbole
	
	
	Anaphora
	
	
	Assonance
	
	
	Onomatopoeia
	
	
	Antithesis
	
	
	 
		
	
		3.
		Choose the one figure that is most clearly illustrated by the short passage.
Turn off your television sets
Turn them off now!
Turn them off right now!
Turn them off and leave them off.
Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence
I'm speaking to you now.'(Peter Finch as television anchorman Howard Beale in Network, 1976)
	
	
	
	(a) antithesis
	
	
	(c) anaphora
	
	
	(d) hyperbole
	
	
	(b) assonance
	
	
	(e) onomatopoeia
	
	
	 
		
	
		4.
		What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'My uncle passed away in 1970.'?
	
	
	
	euphemism
	
	
	hyperbole
	
	
	personification
	
	
	pleonasm
	
	
	pun
	
	
	 
		
	
		5.
		What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'The poor people of Ireland should rid themselves of poverty by selling their children to the rich to eat.'?
	
	
	
	metaphor
	
	
	irony
	
	
	hyperbole
	
	
	personification
	
	
	metonymy
	
	
	 
		
	
		6.
		Consider the sentence: 'Christianity shone like a beacon in the black night of paganism.' What figure of speech is "Christianity shone like a beacon"?
	
	
	
	metaphor
	
	
	climax
	
	
	hyperbole
	
	
	irony
	
	
	simile
	
	
	 
		
	
		7.
		Choose the best figure of speech:
'You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of collagenous junk.' (The Wizard of Oz)
	
	
	
	(b) irony
	
	
	(d) alliteration
	
	
	(c) anaphora
	
	
	(a) ellipsis
	
	
	(e) synecdoche
	
	
	 
		
	
		8.
		Choose the one figure that is most clearly illustrated by the short passage.
Turn off your television sets.
Turn them off now!
Turn them off right now!
Turn them off and leave them off.
Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence
I'm speaking to you now.'(Peter Finch as television anchorman Howard Beale in Network, 1976)
	
	
	
	(a) antithesis
	
	
	(c) anaphora
	
	
	(b) assonance
	
	
	(e) onomatopoeia
	
	
	(d) hyperbole