Figurative Language Flashcards
1
Q
” There they live like the old Robin Hood of England.”
1.1.115-116
A
Simile
2
Q
“Churlish Chiding”
2.1.7
A
Alliteration
3
Q
“I shall rail against the first borns of Egypt.”
2.5.59-60
A
Allusion
4
Q
“I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.”
(2.5.13)
A
Simile
5
Q
“Get you with him, you old dog.”
1.1.81
A
Metaphor
6
Q
“What prodigal portion have I spent that I should come to such penury.”
(1.1.38-39)
A
Allusion
7
Q
“Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.”
2.7.39-40
A
Simile
8
Q
“the winter’s wind, which, when it bites”
2.1.7-8
A
Personification
9
Q
“Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune”
1.2.31
A
Metaphor
10
Q
“And wheresoever we went, like Juno’s swans,”
1.3.74
A
Simile
