Pick out three metaphors among metonymies:
Men’s words are bullets that their enemies take up and make use of against them.
She was the pride of the school.
Language is a road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
He made his way through the perfume and conversation.
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
Specify the type of relation between tenor and vehicle in the following metonymies by choosing the right letter: a) part – whole, b) instrument – production, c) age – person of the age, d) container – what is contained, e) clothes – one who wears them:
We can give her a roof over her head.
The hall roared with laughter.
He is a very good hand at tennis.
We crossed a bridge and negotiated a no man’s land and came to the place where the Stars and Stripes stood shoulder to shoulder with the Union Jack.
He looked at a rather old forty-five, already going grey.
Pick out poetic (stylistic, speech, genuine, individual) metaphor among lexical (trite, language, dead) ones:
The neck of a bottle.
A ray of hope.
Table’s leg.
Your wife’s gown is a poem.
Pick out a trite metaphor among the poetic ones:
Her eyes were pools of still water.
Tongues of flame.
The door behind me groaned.
Mother Nature always blushes before disrobing.
Point out special kinds of metaphor: a) personification, b) zoosemy, c) synesthesia:
Gusts of wind whispered here and there.
Soft is the music that would charm for ever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
Where this girl was a lioness, the other was a panther – lithe and quick.
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