language assesment

Rey, Wenalyn T.
BSED-III
I. Multiple Choice
Directions: Read the following (3) three selections, choose the correct answer.

1. What figure of speech is bores me to tears?
a. hyperbole c. metaphor
b. simile d. personification

2. What figure of speech is the book dropped from his hands like lead?
a. simile c. personification
b. hyperbole d. metaphor

3. What figure of speech is they had to have it in their libraries as a monument of antiquity, like those old rusty coins which can’t be used in real trade?
a. metonymy c. metaphor
b. simile d. personification

4. What figure of speech is the field sits breathless?
a. simile c. metaphor
b. personification d. hyperbole

5. What figure of speech is . . . which scorches the thighs and buttocks of a sliding player as if he were being seared by hot steel?
a. metaphor c. hyperbole
b. simile d. personification

6. What figure of speech is I touch the stubble that is called grass, take off my shoes, but find it is like walking on a row of toothbrushes?
a. hyperbole c. metonymy
b. simile d. metaphor

7. What figure of speech is but Nature is patient?
a. personification c. metaphor
b. hyperbole d. simile

8. What figurative language is pain and pleasure would be at this elbow telling him to do this and avoid that . . .?
a. hyperbole c. personification
b. simile d. metaphor

9. What figure of speech is . . . whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order?
a. metaphor c. simile
b. hyperbole d. personification

10. What figure of speech is . . . his body is the ready servant of his will?
a. metonymy c. metaphor
b. simile d. hyperbole

II. Matching Type
Directions: On the line next to each description in Column A, place the letter of the definition in Column B whom it describes.

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