Exercise
Identify the figure of speech used in each example (shown in italics).
1) And I tell you that on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades（冥府） will not overcome it. (Matt. 16:18) A) Simile(明喻) B) Hyperbole（夸张） C) Metonymy （转喻） D) Personification （拟人） E) Litotes（反语）
1) C - Metonymy. Gates of Hades is most likely to mean “the power of death.”
2) Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth, I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
A) Hyperbole B) Antithesis C) Metonymy D) Personification E) A), B) & C above
2) E - A), B) & C) above. Hyperbole. Bruce, 131: “...when Jesus said he had come to bring ?not peace but a sword?, he meant that this would be the effect of his coming, not that it was the purpose of his coming. His words came true in the life of the early Church, and they have verified themselves subsequently in the history of Christian missions. Where one or two members of a family or other social group have accepted the Christian faith, this has frequently provoked opposition from other members.” It is also an antithesis because it contrasts “peace on earth” with “a sword” .\stands as a metonymy for ”conflict\
3) When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land,
it was like snow fallen on Zalmon. A) Litotes B) Metonymy C) Personification D) Simile E) Synecdoche
D - Simile. The scattering of the kings was like snow falling on a mountain.
4) Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. (Psalm 50:5) A) Metaphor B) Simile C) Apostrophe D) Litotes