Pop Quiz - Elements
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They sat down to dinner and after an excellent meal adjourned to the library. Seeing a copy of Homer in a splendid binding, Candide complimented the noble lord on his good taste. That is an author, said he, who was the special delight of great Pangloss, the best philosopher in all Germany. He's no special delight of mine, said Pococurante coldly. I was once made to believe that I took pleasure in reading him; but that constant recital of fights which are all alike, those gods who are always interfering but never decisively, that Helen who is the cause of the war and then scarcely takes any part in the story, that Troy which is always under siege and never taken—all that bores me to tears. I have sometimes asked scholars if reading it bored them as much as it bores me; everyone who answered frankly told me the book dropped from his hands like lead, but that they had to have it in their libraries as a monument of antiquity, like those old rusty coins which can't be used in real trade.What is the figure of speech “bores me to tears”?
They sat down to dinner and after an excellent meal adjourned to the library. Seeing a copy of Homer in a splendid binding, Candide complimented the noble lord on his good taste. That is an author, said he, who was the special delight of great Pangloss, the best philosopher in all Germany. He's no special delight of mine, said Pococurante coldly. I was once made to believe that I took pleasure in reading him; but that constant recital of fights which are all alike, those gods who are always interfering but never decisively, that Helen who is the cause of the war and then scarcely takes any part in the story, that Troy which is always under siege and never taken—all that bores me to tears. I have sometimes asked scholars if reading it bored them as much as it bores me; everyone who answered frankly told me the book dropped from his hands like lead, but that they had to have it in their libraries as a monument of antiquity, like those old rusty coins which can't be used in real trade.
What is the figure of speech “bores me to tears”?
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What figure of speech is the book dropped from his hands like lead?
What figure of speech is the book dropped from his hands like lead?
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I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slideor press an ear against its hive.I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.I want them to water-ski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
What figure of speech is to hold it [a poem] up to the light / like a color slide?
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to water-ski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
What figure of speech is to hold it [a poem] up to the light / like a color slide?
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What figure of speech is But all they [students] want to do / is tie the poem to a chair with a rope / and torture a confession out of it?
What figure of speech is But all they [students] want to do / is tie the poem to a chair with a rope / and torture a confession out of it?
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"Her laughter was music to anyone around her" is an example of what type of figurative language?
"Her laughter was music to anyone around her" is an example of what type of figurative language?
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The bodybuilder has a Herculean physique. is an example of...
The bodybuilder has a Herculean physique. is an example of...