II Identify the type(s) of each figure of speech/syntactical or lexical expressive means in the following examples:

1. The lamenting voices strummed so convincingly, so passionately, it was impossible to suspect them of being phantoms.

a) antitheses b) metonymy c) synecdoche d) personification e) metaphor

2. Far off, very far, Magda leaned across her air-fed belly, reaching out with the rods of her arms.

a) personification b)metaphor c) reversed epithet d) metonymy e) transferred epithet

3. The shoulder that carried Magda was not coming toward Rosa ….

a) metaphor b) synecdoche c) metonymy d) personification e) zeugma

4. She was no bigger than a moth.

a)metaphor b) epithet c) personification d) simile e) understatement

5. And the moment Magda's feathered round head and her pencil legs and balloonish belly and zigzag arms splashed against the fence…

a) epithets b) metaphors c) periphrasis d) hyperbole e) metonymy

6) Drives, dinners, theatres, balls, suppers, with the gilding of superfluous wealth over all.

a) parallelism b) ellipse c) anticlimax d) enumeration

7) No more the tepees; no more the wild stretch of prairie, no mere the bed of buffalo hide…

a) parallelism b) anaphora c) climax d) enumeration

8) He let smoke wander from his nose, through the hairs of his ears and head.

a) metaphor b) lg-as-a-system c) metonymy d) personification

9) Off came his shirt. Off came his boots.

a) enumeration b) ellipse c) set phrase d) inversion

10) They left no nook or corner unexplored.

a) onomatopoeia b) allusion c) alliteration d) litotes

11) Well! Must be off sport. Be seeing you in a fortnight. You got your juice and grub, didn’t you?

a) bookish b) colloquialism c) slang d) set phrase

12. He strode back to the truck and pressed the shrill endless horn that traveled over the dunes.

a) personification b)metaphor c) epithet d) metonymy

12. She dropped a tear and her pocket handkerchief.

a) ellipsis b) nominative sentences c) asyndeton d) zeugma

12. Rosa never stopped walking, a walking cradle.

a) metaphor b) personification c) metaphorical periphrasis d) metonymy

12. She looked into Magda's face through a gap in the shawl: a squirrel in a nest, safe, no one could reach her inside the little house of the shawl's windings.

a) synecdoche b) metaphor c) personification d) metaphorical periphrasis

12. The duct crevice extinct, a dead-volcano, blind eye, chilly hole, so Magda took the corner of the shawl and milked it instead.

a) synonymical metaphors b) metonymies c) synecdoche d) epithets

12. She sucked and sucked, flooding the threads with wetness. The shawl's good flavor, milk of linen.

a) metaphor b) reversed epithet c) hyperbole d) metonymy

12. It was a magic shawl, it could nourish an infant for three days and three, nights.

a) personification b)metaphor c) epithet d) hyperbole

12. Magda flopped onward with her little pencil legs moving this way and that, in search of the shawl; the pencils faltered at the barracks opening, where the light began.

a) metaphor b) synecdoche c) metonymy d) personification

12. A tide of commands hammered in Rosa's nipples: Fetch, get, bring!

a) personification b)metaphor c) epithet d) metonymy

12. Rosa tore the shawl free and flew—she could fly, she was only air—into the arena.

a) personification b)metaphor c) oximoron d) metonymy

12. In the barracks they spoke of "flowers," of "rain": excrement, thick turd-braids, and the slow stinking maroon waterfall that slunk, down from the upper bunks, the stink mixed with a bitter fatty floating smoke that greased Rosa's skin.

a) antitheses b) contrast c) anticlimax d) irony

12. Was it an hour ago she had waited by the entrance, wearing her hope like a corsage at her belt?

a) epithet b) personification c) simile d) synecdoche

12. When the funicular came to rest those new to it stirred in suspension between the blues of two heavens.

a) metaphor b) personification c) simile d) hyperbole

12. Upon it floated swans like boats and boats like swans, both lost in the nothingness of the heartless beauty.

a) framing b) antithesis c) anaphora d) reduplication

26) He looked at her for a moment, she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

a) metaphor b) personification c) simile d) synecdoche

27) The color is brown—brown plains of brown dirt, brown weeds rolling off north, south, east, west with a brown road slashing across them.

a) anaphora b) framing c) reduplication d) climax e) prolepsis

28) And first, in the security bred of many harmless marriages, it had been forgotten that Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine…

a) personification b) metaphor c) synecdoche d) inversion e) epithet

29) He lay very high, on the back of the world. The earth thrilled beneath him. Red flowers grew through his flesh; their stiff leaves rustled by his head.

a) metaphor b) personification c) epithet d) allusion e) simile

30) The blue plastic beneath the colorless water tried to make a cheerful, other­worldly statement, but Linda saw that the pool in truth had no bottom, it held bottomless loss, it was one huge blue tear.

a) metaphor b) personification c) epithet d) allusion e) simile