Question

Name the Figures of Speech in the following sentences.

i. Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.

ii. A thousand years are as yesterday when it is past.

iii. Lowliness is young Ambition’s ladder.​

Answer 1

Answer:

i) simile

ii) metaphor

iii) metaphor

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Answer 2

Answer:

i. Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.

ii. A thousand years are as yesterday when it is past.

iii. Lowliness is young Ambition’s ladder.

Explanation:

i) come

ii) past

iii) young