Language Features - Famous Quotes

Question 1

“Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard” – The Highwayman

Accepted Answer

onomatopoeia & alliteration

Question 2

"Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along" - Room with a View

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 3

“Because I could not stop for Death, / He kindly stopped for me” - Because I could not stop for Death (479)

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 4

"Full fathom five thy father lies" – The Tempest

Accepted Answer

alliteration

Question 5

I said nothing, just ran my fingers along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me."

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 6

“The Soul selects her own Society - / Then – shuts the door – “ – The Soul selects her own society (303)

Accepted Answer

sibilance & personification

Question 7

"Tree you are, / Moss you are, / You are violets with wind above them. / A child - so high - you are." - A Girl

Accepted Answer

metaphor & repetition

Question 8

"Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!” – If

Accepted Answer

hyperbole

Question 9

I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.” – Old Times

Accepted Answer

hyperbole

Question 10

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet,” – As I Walked Out One Day

Accepted Answer

hyperbole & repetition

Question 11

"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary” – The Raven

Accepted Answer

alliteration & internal rhyme

Question 12

"All the world’s a stage, and all men and women merely players.” – As You Like It

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 13

"Southern trees bear a strange fruit, / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, / Black body swinging" Strange Fruit

Accepted Answer

alliteration, sibilance, rhyme, parallel structure & metaphor

Question 14

“I wandered lonely as a cloud.” – I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Accepted Answer

simile, consonance & personification

Question 15

“It was a smooth silvery voice to match her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll’s house.”

Accepted Answer

sibilance, alliteration, onomatopoeia & simile

Question 16

"O, my Luve's like a red, red rose, / That's newly sprung in June." - A Red, Red Rose

Accepted Answer

alliteration & simile

Question 17

“But four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out of sea, towing the skiff..." The Old Man & the Sea

Accepted Answer

sibilance

Question 18

. "Scarcely a tear to shed; / Hardly a word to say; / The end of a summer day;/ Sweet Love dead." - An Evening

Accepted Answer

sibilance, parallel structure, rhyme & metaphor

Question 19

“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill / Of things unknown but longed for still.” – Caged Bird

Accepted Answer

onomatopoeia, personification & rhyme

Question 20

"It’s a slow burg – I spend a couple of weeks there one day." – The People, Yes

Accepted Answer

hyperbole

Question 21

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – The Great Gatsby

Accepted Answer

alliteration

Question 22

"Grave men, near death, see with blinding sight." - Do not go gentle into that good night

Accepted Answer

assonance & oxymoron

Question 23

"A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer" - To Kill A Mockingbird

Accepted Answer

hyperbole

Question 24

“Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me.” – Eat, Pray, Love

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 25

"Boldly they rode and well, / Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the six hundred” – CotLB

Accepted Answer

personification, assonance, rhyme & repetition

Language Features - Famous Quotes

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Language Features - Famous Quotes

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