Poem 2 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
Poem 2 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
Grammar
Figures of Speech
Choose the Figures of Speech in the following lines:
1.‘Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces.
A. Alliteration
B. Repetition
C. Metaphor
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
Answer:
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
2.‘Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor.
A. Internal Rhyme
B. Simile
C. Alliteration
D. Synecdoche
Answer:
B. Simile
3.‘For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes.
A. Metaphor
B. Exaggeration
C. Simile
D. Personification
Answer:
A. Metaphor
4.‘With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones’.
A. Repetition
B. Comparison
C. Simile
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
Answer:
C. Simile
5.‘So blot their maps with slums as big as doom’.
A. Metaphor
B. Comparison
C. Simile
D. Alliteration
Answer:
B. Comparison
6.‘………. and these windows …………………… That shut upon their lives like catacombs’.
A. Internal Rhyme
B. Simile
C. Metaphor
D. Synecdoche
Answer:
B. Simile
7.‘Break O break open till they break the town’.
A. Repetition
B. Apostrophe
C. Simile
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
Answer:
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
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