Figures of Speech Identify The Following Figures of Speech
Figures of Speech Identify The Following Figures of Speech
Figures of Speech Identify The Following Figures of Speech
1. I want to die young at a ripe old age. Oxymoron- he wants to live forever
2. He paid the workers $5 per head. Synecdoche- head is the part of the body, it’s used for a
person
6. A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
7. Give everyman thine ear, but few thy voice. Lắng nghe nhiều hơn nói ít lại
9. The convict was thrown into the condemned cell. Transferred epithet
Most Americans easily recognize Uncle Sam as a symbol of the United States or a
national nickname. ... His image represents the U.S. government in political
cartoons, or as a stand-in for the American people everywhere from soccer games
to political rallies. He has come to represent a patriotic ideal in popular culture.
14. I have read all of Milton.
18. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing me three and twentieth year.
19. The most effective water power in the road is women’s tear.
23. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity.
24. A reeling road, a rolling road that rambles around the shire
25. We’ll see you when you get back from image enhancement camp.
26. You have got a prime figure. You really have, you know.
27. Industrial action, unlawful combatant, courtesy reminder, mentally deficient, relieve misery, full-
figured, of modest means, handicapped, sanitation worker, be at rest, past one’s prime, under-
achiever, maintenance worker
29. Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
33. I think we’ve reached a point of great decision, not just for our nation, not only for all humanity,
but for life upon the earth.
36. The lawyers were waiting for a decision from the bench.
40. Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
45. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience and truth may be drowned.
In Japan, we have the proverb, “What is learned in the cradle is carried to the
grave!” This means that what children learn before they are 3 years old will
remain with them for the rest of their lives. During the Edo period, people
believed that one’s way of being is determined by the time they are 3 years
old.
50. A righteous man shall be like a tree, planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruits in its
season.
58. The conflict between reformers and dinosaurs has never been so raw or exposed.
62. ….but current thinking suggests that as we sail into the next millennium, we may want to batten
down the hatches. It looks like we are in for nasty weather.
63. A message say so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received,
severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string.
That is why, walking across the school campus on this particular December morning, I keep
searching the sky as if I expected to see a lost pair of kites hurrying towards heaven.
66. I lost my wallet and the key to the apartment last night. Was I lucky enough?
67. What flower does everybody have on the face? Everybody has tulips on the face.
68. Thinking logically, speaking eloquently, and writing explicitly are important elements of good
communication.
69. Now is the time to forget everything in the past. Now is the time to get down to the business.
Now is the time to work hard for the future.