Answer: Epigram
2. I must be taught my duty, and by you!
Answer:
Irony
3. Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee.
Answer: Apostrophe
4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind.
Answer: Personification
5. He makes no friends, who never made a foe.
Answer: Epigram
6. He that planted the ear, shall he not here? He that formed
the eye, shall He not see?
Answer: Interrogation
7. Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
Answer:
Synecdoche
8. To gossip is a fault; to libel, a crime; to slander, a sin.
Answer:
Climax
9. Oh! What a noble mind is here overthrown!
Answer: Exclamation
10. Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding.
Answer: Epigram
11. Why all this toil
for triumph of an hour?
Answer: Interrogation
12. Fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Answer: Antithesis
13. The Puritan had been rescued by no common deliverer from
the grasp of no common foe.
Answer:
Litotes
14. The cup that cheers but not inebriates.
Answer: Metonymy
15. You are a pretty fellow.
Answer:
Irony
16. Hasten slowly.
Answer:
Oxymoron
17. Hail! Smiling morn.
Answer: Apostrophe
18. Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Answer:
Interrogation
19. Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.
Answer: Simile
20. A thousand years are as yesterday when it is passed.
Answer: Hyperbole
21. The prisoner was brought to the dock in irons.
Answer: Synecdoche
22. We had nothing to do, and we did it very well.
Answer: Paradox/Oxymoron
23. Boys will be boys.
Answer:
Epigram
24. The cloister opened her pitying gate.
Answer: Personification/Transferred
Epithet
25. Lowliness is young Ambition’s ladder.
Answer: Metaphor
26. Language is the art of concealing thought.
Answer:
Epigram
27. Must I stand and crouch under your tasty humour?
Answer: Interrogation
28. Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
Answer: Apostrophe
29. He followed the letter, but not the spirit of the law.
Answer:
Antithesis
30. One truth is clear: whatever is, is right.
Answer: Irony
31. I came, I saw, I conquered.
Answer:
Climax
32. Labour, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.
Answer: Simile
33. Just for a handful of silver he left us.
Answer: Synecdoche
34. They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than
lions.
Answer: Hyperbole
35. Swiftly flies the feathered death.
Answer: Metaphor
36. It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Answer: Epigram
37. Brave Macbeth, with his brandished steel, carved out his
passage.
Answer: Synecdoche
38. Sweet Thames! Run softly, till I end my song.
Answer: Apostrophe
39. There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired
freedom produces-and that cure is freedom.
Answer: Epigr
40. Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the
laboring swain.
Answer: Apostrophe
41. So spake the seraph Abdiel faithful found
Among the faithless, faithful only he.
Answer:
Antithesis
42. Youth is full of pleasure,
Age is full of care.
Answer: Antithesis
43. Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou art gone and forever.
Answer: Simile
44. An Honour’s voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Answer: Personification
45. Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
Answer: Antithesis
46. Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears still a precious jewel in its head.
Answer:
Simile
47. The naked everyday he clad
When he put on his clothes.
Answer: Pun
48. O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.
Answer:
Apostrophe
49. Knowledge is proud that it knows so much,
Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Answer: Personification
50.At once they rush’d
Together as two eagles on one prey
Come rushing down together from the clouds,
One from east, one from west.
Answer:
Simile
51. Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow,
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Answer:
Simile
52. The best way to learn a language is to speak it.
Answer: Epigram
53. Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
with the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Answer: Metonymy
54. O Solitude! Where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Answer: Apostrophe
55. I thought ten thousand swords must have
leapt from their scabbards to avenge a look that threatened her with insult.
Answer: Hyperbole
56. The soldier fights for glory, and a
shilling a day.
Answer: Anticlimax
57. His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
Answer: Oxymoron
58. They speak like saints, and act like
devils.
Answer: Antithesis
59. He was a learned man among lords, and a
lord among learned men.
Answer: Epigram
60. Speech was given to man to conceal his
thoughts.
Answer: Epigram
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