L.E.T. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

1. Envy lurks in the human earth, like a viper in its hole.
A. Many human beings are like poisonous snakes.
(B) Everyone sees something to envy in his fellowmen.
C. Good fortune is to be envied.
D. At the bottom of many actions is envy.
2. The word that floats on the surface is as the tossing bouy the betrays where
The anchor is.
A. The word floats on the surface of the water.
B. Words are like bouys.
(C) A bouy reveals where the anchor is.
D. Man’s words reveal his thoughts.
3. He has muscles of iron.
A. The man has muscles.
(B) The man is very strong
C. Iron is hard
4. Life is a leaf of paper white.
A. Life is a white leaf.
(B) A man fills each day of his lift with things he says and does.
C. A man shows the kind of lives he lives.
D. People write on leaves
5. Spare moments are the gold duet of times.
A. There are spare moments.
B. Time is gold.
(C) Spare time is precious.
D. A person must take time to repeat.
6. Black were her eyes as the berry the grows on the thorn by the wayside.
(A) The girls eyes are very black.
B. The girls sat the black berries.
C. There are thorns on the berries.
D. The black eyes of the girl saw the berries on the way side.
7. Her mind id sundial which records only pleasantness.
A. The comparison between a girls mind and a sundial.
B. The sundial which records the pleasant sun.
C. A mind which is bright like the sun.
(D) A girl whose thoughts are always pleasant.
8. The wine of the keeps dozing, drop by drop.
The leaves of life keep falling one by one.
A. Life is like wine.
B. Life is like the leaves of the trees.
C. Life is like wine and leaves.
(D) Each passing day is off the span of life.
9. Is this the face that launched a thousand ship?
A. Whose face is referred to?
(B) How could it have launched a thousand shops?
C. What figure of speech is used here?
10. A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows himself to others. This
passage means that
A. A man has manners.
B. A man sees himself in a mirror.
C. A man should be careful of what the mirror tells.
(D) A man’s actions reveal his nature.
11. We bend in the blast but do not break, said the reed to the oak a. What
ability does the reed have which is similar to that of man? b. The passage
implies that
A. The reed and the oak are quarreling.
B. The reed is stronger than the oak.
C. There is big storm.
(D) The reed can adapt better than the oak to the ways of nature.
12. I wash my hands off the matter.
A. The speaker has dirty hands.
(B) The speaker does not want to assume responsibilities.
C. The man is very clean.
D. Washing of the hands is important before making a decision.
13. He may be a Samson in body but Simon in mind.
(A) The man is strong but dumb.
B. The man is called Samson but he is weak.
C. He knows two men called Samson and Simon.
D. He knows that he can either be Samson or Simon.