Language Features/Techniques Quiz

“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”

The skies of his future began to darken.

"I just got there in the nick of time"

Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea….”

Nurse: God ye good morrow, gentlemen.
Mercutio: God ye good den, fair gentlewoman.
Nurse: Is it good den?
Mercutio: ‘Tis no less, I tell you; for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon.
Nurse: Out upon you! What a man are you!

“Life were better ended by their hate,
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love”

My grandmother is as old as the hills.

“It is the unkindest tied that ever any man tied.”

Good fences make good neighbors.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head.

"Here was a small boy of Quebec
Who was buried in snow to his neck
When they said, “Are you friz?”
He replied, “Yes, I is —
But we don’t call this cold in Quebec.”

“This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Our soldiers are as brave as lions

"Friends, countrymen, lend me your ears.”

“In me didst thou exist—and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.”

“I am a very foolish fond old man,
Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less;
And, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind….”