Figure of speech Quiz

10th English – Figures of Speech (Drag & Drop)

Match each poetic line with the correct figure of speech.
On mobile: tap a figure, then tap a line.

Poetic Lines

• Not hurrying…, Not mourning…
• She’s a lioness; don’t mess with her.
• The river of Discontent beside.
• The weather is always too hot or cold.
• She’s today’s woman. Today’s woman, dear.
• Away he set off to a miserly ant.
• We can see and hear and count and read and write.
• We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
• Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes.
• Fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.
• Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes like ours.
• How could this be?
• Lights flicker on and off.

Figures of Speech

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Contrast
• Anaphora
• Repetition
• Epithet
• Imagery
• Hyperbole
• Connotation
• Transferred Epithet
• Rhetorical Question
• Onomatopoeia