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B. metaphor

1. Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor-- Bare. (Langston Hughes, "Mother to Son") (a) synecdoche (b) metaphor (c) irony (d) pun. B. metaphor.

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B. metaphor

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  1. 1. Well, son, I'll tell you:Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.It's had tacks in it,And splinters,And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor--Bare. (Langston Hughes, "Mother to Son") (a) synecdoche (b) metaphor (c) irony (d) pun

  2. B. metaphor

  3. 2. Why should white people be running all the stores in our community? Why should white people be running the banks of our community? Why should the economy of our community be in the hands of the white man? Why? (Malcolm X)(a) antithesis (b) litotes(c) anaphora(d) understatement

  4. C. anaphora

  5. 3. Substituting the word “euthanasia” for “mercy killing" or "killing the terminally ill.” (a) Hyperbole (b) Euphemism (c) Assonance (d) Oxymoron

  6. B. euphemism

  7. 4. I had so much homework last night that I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home! (a) synecdoche(b) onomatopoeia(c) pun(d) hyperbole

  8. D. hyperbole

  9. 5. Let's just say that Ms. Hilton is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. (a) paradox(b) litotes(c) apostrophe(d) chiasmus

  10. B. litotes

  11. 6. The chug-a, chug-a, chug-a of the train echoed down the hill, while a cloud of smoke rose up to the blue western sky. (a) simile (b) metonymy(c) anaphora(d) onomatopoeia

  12. D. onomatopoeia

  13. 7. But the prisoner would not answer, he only lay with wide, dark, bright, eyes, like a bound animal. (D. H. Lawrence, England, My England) (a) oxymoron(b) euphemism(c) anaphora(d) personification

  14. A. oxymoron

  15. 8. You have a lot of work to do, so I'll lend you a hand. (a) assonance(b) apostrophe(c) irony (d) synecdoche

  16. D. synecdoche

  17. 9. The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life. (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby) (a) chiasmus (b) alliteration(c) pathetic fallacy (d) oxymoron

  18. B. alliteration and C. pathetic fallacy

  19. 10. O Western wind, when wilt thou blowThat the small rain down can rain?Christ, that my love were in my arms,And I in my bed again! (Anonymous, "O Western Wind") (a) litotes(b) paradox(c) apostrophe(d) anaphora

  20. C. apostrophe

  21. 11. The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. (Benjamin Franklin)(a) hyperbole (b) chiasmus(c) litotes (d) anaphora

  22. B. chiasmus

  23. 12. We talked with each other about each otherThough neither of us spoke — (Emily Dickinson)(a) metonymy (b) paradox(c) synecdoche(d) personification

  24. B. paradox

  25. 13. The earth laughs beneath my heavy feetAt the blasphemy in my old jangly walk (Billy Corgan, "Thirty-three") (a) euphemism(b) simile (c) antithesis(d) personification

  26. D. personification

  27. 14. I dig my toes into the sand.The ocean looks likeA thousand diamonds strewnAcross a blue blanket. (Incubus, "Wish You Were Here") (a) chiasmus (b) simile(c) onomatopoeia(d) synecdoche

  28. B. simile

  29. 15. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. (Virgil)(a) simile (b) irony(c) metonymy(d) assonance

  30. c. metonymy

  31. 16. Why do we wait until a pig is dead to cure it? (a) pun(b) personification(c) anaphora (d) synecdoche

  32. a. pun

  33. 17. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way." (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities) (a) antithesis (b) litotes(c) simile(d) understatement

  34. a. antithesis

  35. 18. And he was rich, yes, richer than a king,And admirably schooled in every grace:In fine--we thought that he was everythingTo make us wish that we were in his place.So on we worked and waited for the light,And went without the meat and cursed the bread,And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,Went home and put a bullet in his head. (E. A. Robinson, "Richard Cory") (a) chiasmus(b) litotes (c) antithesis(d) irony

  36. D. irony

  37. 19. Dr. Petrov: "This is most unnerving, Captain. The reason for having two missile keys is so that no one man may -- " Captain Ramius: "May what?"  The Hunt for Red October

  38. aposiopesis

  39. 20. Brutus: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  40. antithesis

  41. 21. For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel. Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  42. apostrophe

  43. 23. One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day .

  44. meiosis

  45. 24. He is a man of the cloth

  46. metonymy • substitution of one word for another which it suggests

  47. 25. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  48. Apposition • Placing side-by-side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first.

  49. 26. The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation. William Hazlitt

  50. Parenthesis

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