Which of the following sentences correctly uses “lion” and “ferocious” in a simile?

Which of the following sentences correctly uses “death” in an apostrophe?

Which of the following exemplifies a paradox?

Which of the following sentences exemplifies an antithesis?

Which represents the various social overtones, cultural implications, or emotional meanings associated with a sign or symbol?

What imagery is present in the following sentences from Manuel E. Arguilla’s How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife?

Her nails were long, but they were not painted. She was fragrant like a morning when papayas are in bloom. And a small dimple appeared momentarily high up on her cheek.

Fame Is a Fickle Food and Hope Is the Thing with Feathers are poems of Emily Dickinson. What figure of speech do they share in common?

Among the “senses of the mind”, which one is presented in the poem below?

The fog comes

On little cat feet.

It sits looking

Over harbor and city

On silent haunches

And then moves on.

- Carl Sandburg, The Fog

Which is a direct address to someone absent, long dead, or an inanimate object? Example: “Pack, clouds, away and welcome day!”

News travels as fast as the wind. What figure of speech is used in the foregoing sentence?

What is the substitution of a term considered inoffensive for one that might bring the reader or listener too close to an uncomfortable reality?

What figure of speech is exemplified in this poem?

Twilight

Is a young bird

In gorgeous plumes

Seeking refuge

Under the wings

Of its Mother night.

- Epifanio T. Ramos

“He is the black sheep of the family.” Which figure of speech is used in this sentence? ^{***March 2012 LET}

What figure of speech entails the use of an association wherein something is substituted by something it represents? ^{***March 2012 LET}

In which of the following figures of speech do apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction?

What figure of speech is exemplified by the following sentence?

It’s no wonder everyone refers to Edna as another Mother Theresa in the making. She loves to help and care after people from the streets to her own friends.

What literary device uses words that imitate the sound of what they denote, e.g. bang, whoosh, and buzz?

What figure of speech is used in the term fake news?

Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

What figure of speech is exemplified by this aphorism?

What sound device is used in this line of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before?