Teste 10

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LÍNGUA INGLESA - ESTRUTURA SINTÁTICA I 
10a aula 
 
 
Exercício: CEL0562_EX_A10_201703243277_V1 21/11/2018 10:38:02 (Finalizada) 
Aluno: OZIEL RIBEIRO MARINHO 2018.3 EAD 
Disciplina: CEL0562 - LÍNGUA INGLESA - ESTRUTURA SINTÁTICA I 201703243277 
 
 
 1a Questão 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet 
At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk (Billy Corgan, 'Thirty-three') 
 
 
(c) antithesis 
 
(b) simile 
 
(e) pun 
 (a) euphemism 
 (d) personification 
 
Explicação: Personification gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas. This can really 
affect the way the reader imagines things. This is used in children’s books, poetry, and fictional literature. The 
earth laughs beneath my heavy feet 
 
 
 2a Questão 
 
'Her head was so full of ideas that it was ready to burst wide open.' 
 What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? 
 
 
E) assonance 
 
D) personification 
 
A) metaphor 
 B) hyperbole 
 
C) alliteration 
 
Explicação: Hyperbole = An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is true. 
 
 
 3a Questão 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
'You have a lot of work to do, so I'll lend you a hand.' 
 
 
(e) pleonasm 
 
(a) assonance 
 
(b) apostrophe 
 (c) irony 
 (d) synechdoche 
 
Explicação: SYNECDOCHE is understood as a specific kind of metonymy. It is a figure of speech in which 
a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole of something, or vice-versa. = 'You have a lot of 
work to do, so I'll lend you a hand.' 
 
 
 4a Questão 
 
Choose the best figure of speech: 
'Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.' 
(Mark Twain) 
 
 (a) anaphora 
 
(e) zeugma 
 (d) antithesis 
 
(c) apostrophe 
 
(b) pun 
 
Explicação: An antithesis is a figure of speech where two very opposing lines of thought or ideas are placed in 
a somewhat balanced sentenced. 
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.' 
 
 
 5a Questão 
 
What is the figure of speech in the sentence: 'The poor people of Ireland should rid themselves of poverty by 
selling their children to the rich to eat.'? 
 
 
personification 
 
metonymy 
 irony 
 
hyperbole 
 
metaphor 
 
Explicação: Irony is used to stress on the opposite meaning of a word. When people are looking to be sarcastic, 
they employ irony. 
 
 
 6a Questão 
 
The phrases 'the humming bee', 'the cackling hen', and 'the buzzing saw' are examples of ________________. 
 
 
metaphor 
 
irony 
 onomatopoeia 
 
pun 
 antithesis 
 
Explicação: Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like their meaning, or mimic sounds. It is used to 
replicate sounds created by objects, actions, animals and people. 
 "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-dong. The little train rumbled over the tracks." 
("Watty Piper" [Arnold Munk], The Little Engine That Could) 
 "Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."(Richard 
Wright, Native Son, 1940) 
 
 7a Questão 
 
'He was a library of information about baseball.' What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? 
 
 
D) hyperbole 
 C) metaphor 
 
A) pleonasm 
 
E) onomatopoeia 
 
B) personification 
 
Explicação: A metaphor is a figure of speech that says that one thing is another different thing. This allows 
us to use fewer words and forces the reader or listener to find the similarities. 
He was a library of information about baseball.' 
 
 
 8a Questão 
 
Choose the one figure that is most clearly illustrated by the short passage. 
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it 
was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, 
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, 
we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way." (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two 
Cities) 
 
 antithesis 
 metaphor 
 
pleonasm 
 
simile 
 
personification 
 
Explicação: An antithesis is a figure of speech where two very opposing lines of thought or ideas are placed in 
a somewhat balanced sentenced. 
 Man proposes: God disposes.