Unit 4 Summative Study Guide

The underlined words are examples of what figurative language device? 

I am the audience that witnesses history. The Napoleons come from me and the Lincolns. They die. And then I send forth more Napoleons and Lincolns.

The underlined word is an example of what figurative language device? 

Sometimes I growl, shake myself and spatter a few red drops for history to remember. Then—I forget.

The underline words are examples of what figurative language device?

I am the seed ground. I am a prairie that will stand for much plowing.

The underlined words are examples of what figurative language device? 

I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass.

Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food and clothes.

I am the audience that witnesses history.

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; being purged, a fire sparkling in Lovers eyes."

 ”By heaven! when she vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron seething over the intense ire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises” is an example of: 

The underlined words are examples of what figurative language device?  

“You have dancing shoes with nimble soles; I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move"

The underlined words are examples of what figurative language device? 

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,

Would scarcely know that we were gone.

The following stanza is from “Casey at the Bat”- a poem about a local baseball player (in Mudville) striking out for the first time. 

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright,

The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;

And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,

But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out.

The underlined words are examples of what figurative language device?

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?