Identify the figures of speech used in the following sentences:
(i) I’d give my right arm for a cup of tea.
(ii) Taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich.
(iii) Fate frowned on his endeavors.
(iv) All Adam ate in August was apples and almonds.
(v) They are as different as night and day.
(vi) The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid near and nearer the sill of the world.
(vii) But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and and Juliet is the sun!
(viii) It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable.
The pain unendurable.
(ix) But now, O Lord, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of
your hand.
(x) My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.
(xi) She tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach.
(xii) Past him, ten feet from his front wheels, flung the Seattle Express like a flying volcano.
(xiii) If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not , speak then to
me.
xiv) You could have knocked me over with a feather.
(xv) Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
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1.hyperbole 2.Antithesis 3.personification 4.alliteration 5.metaphor 6.hyperbole
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