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02:31, 12 марта 2014

week 5

Exercise:
Say if the sentences or phrases below are metaphors, similes, personifications or metonyms.

  1. "Education is our passport to the future, and tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." —Malcolm X, civil rights activist and writer
  2. "The computer had become like the most miraculous sort of technological Swiss Army knife: each time you thought you knew what it could do, it turned out that it could do more, faster, and more accurately." —Anna Quindlen, author
  3. "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest." —Douglas Jerrold, playwright and humorist (1803-1857)
  4. "Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand." —Mark Abley, journalist (1955)
  5. "A good example is the best sermon." —Ben Franklin, Founding Father, statesman, author, inventor
  6. English is unrivaled as the most widely-spoken language in the world. It is the sole or joint language of more nations and territories than any other tongue
  7. "Slang is 'a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work." —Carl Sandburg, poet
  8. "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for it to kill your enemy." —Nelson Mandela, former South African president, who was previously imprisoned for 30 years for his anti-apartheid activities; after his release, he negotiated the end of apartheid, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
 

Good luck!

 
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