Metaphor, Metonymy and Schemes

Question 1

His last suggestion heated up the debate.

Answer 1

Metaphor

Question 2

He was as unpleasant as a venereal disease.

Answer 2

Simile

Question 3

Earth felt the salt in her wound.

Answer 3

Personification

Question 4

Lazy road; tired landscape

Answer 4

Epithet

Question 5

Do not mix apples and oranges!

Answer 5

Set phrase

Question 6

I’m reading Shakespeare.

Answer 6

Metonymy

Question 7

Twenty eyes watched our every move.

Answer 7

Synecdoche

Question 8

He’s a real Mozart.

Answer 8

Antonomasia

Question 9

The pilot walked down the aisle, through the door, and into the cockpit.

Answer 9

Parallelism

Question 10

That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Answer 10

Antithesis

Question 11

I am the way, the truth, and the life.

Answer 11

Climax

Question 12

“Janet”, expclaimed the announcer, “you’ve just won a brand new set of pencils!”

Answer 12

Anticlimax

Question 13

In his own thinking.

Answer 13

Pleonasm

Question 14

This glove was stolen, he didn’t buy it.

Answer 14

Tautology

Question 15

Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man.

Answer 15

Hyperbaton

Question 16

Alone on a wide wide sea.

Answer 16

Epizeuxis

Question 17

Will he read the book? Will he learn what it has to teach him? Will he learn what it has to teach him?

Answer 17

Anaphora

Question 18

I’ll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.

Answer 18

Epiphora

Question 19

Most true that I must fair Fidessa love, Most true that fair Fidessa cannot love.

Answer 19

Symploce

Question 20

Blood hath brought blood, and blows have answered blows.

Answer 20

Epanalepsis

Question 21

The crime was common, common be the pain.

Answer 21

Anadiplosis

Question 22

Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances

Answer 22

Polyptoton

Question 23

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

Answer 23

Chiasmus

Question 24

We lived and laughed and loved and left.

Answer 24

Polysyndeton

Question 25

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Answer 25

Asyndeton

Question 26

You can go…
If you don’t…

Answer 26

Aposiopesis

Question 27

The Master’s degree is awarded by twelve departments, and the Ph.D. by eight.

Answer 27

Ellipsis

Question 28

I don’t want to remind you of the situation that happened at the meeting last week.

Answer 28

Paralipsis