AR's Test 2: Figure Of Speeches (SSC)

1. In the poem "A Thing of Beauty," which figure of speech is used in the phrase "an endless fountain of immortal drink"?

2. Which figure of speech is found in the phrase "Shrunk shank" from "All the World's a Stage"?

3. "A flowery band to bind us to the earth" in "A Thing of Beauty" is an example of which figure of speech?

4. In the poem "Animals," which figure of speech is used in "Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things"?

5. The line "With sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man" in "The Height of the Ridiculous" uses which figure of speech?

6. In "The Will to Win," which figure of speech is found in the line "If neither cold poverty, famish or gout or sickness or pain of body and brain can keep you away"?

7. "Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms" from "All the World's a Stage" is an example of which figure of speech?

8. In "Night of the Scorpion," which figure of speech is used in "The peasants came like swarms of flies"?

9. Which figure of speech is used in the line "With all of your capacity, strength and sagacity" from "The Will to Win"?

10. In "The Height of the Ridiculous," which figure of speech is used in "I laughed as I would die"?