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