Figurative Language

Question 1

I’ll rail against the first born of Egypt

Answer 1

Allusion

Question 2

I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs

Answer 2

Simile

Question 3

And churlish chiding of winters wind, which, when it bites and blows upon my body even til I shrink with cold

Answer 3

Personification

Question 4

Penalty of Adam

Answer 4

Allusion

Question 5

They live like the old Robin Hood of England

Answer 5

Simile

Question 6

But what they call compliments like th’ encounter of two dog-apes

Answer 6

Simile

Question 7

And wheresoe’er we went like Juno’s swans

Answer 7

Simile

Question 8

Now Hercules

Answer 8

Metaphor

Question 9

My lungs began to crow like chantieer

Answer 9

Personification/simile

Question 10

I never loved my brother in my life

Answer 10

Hyperbole