1. Who wrote the famous simile, ‘My love is like a red, red rose’?

        a. Robert Burns   b. Robert the Bruce   c. Robert Downey Jr.

 

2. In which of Shakespeare’s plays would you find the epizeuxis, ‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow’?  

 

3. Who penned the Metaphor, ‘Oh, what a tangled web we weave/ When first we practise to deceive’?

 

4. ‘Lock, stock and barrel’ and ‘From dawn till dusk’, are examples of... 

        a.  Litotes   b. Movie titles   c. Merisms

 

5. Which of these are true oxymorons?

        a. Terribly good   b. Happily married   c. American Intelligence

 

6. ‘I would walk 500 miles’, is an example of...

        a. Hyperbole   b. Hyperbaton   c. Hyperactivity

 

7. ‘Downing Street was confused’, is an example of...

        a.  Personification   b. Metonymy   c. Normality

 

8. ‘They wore noisy dresses’ is an example of…

        a. Synecdoche b. Synaesthesia c. Synonymy