Figures of Speech Quiz 2
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Manal SalamehFigures of Speech Quiz 2
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Manal SalamehAmjad High School Date: 7/ 3 / 2017
Grade 10: ___ Score: ____/ 10
Figures of Speech Quiz
Directions: Identify the figures of speech used in the selection below. The number of figures of speech
is indicated between brackets next to each part. After you have finished, interpret any three of the
above.
1. I never thought I'd hear the words heroin and chic mentioned in the same sentence. But lately the
two have been paired, in movies and other pop culture. This shakes me to my very soul, as I recall
the private hell that heroin brought to my life for over 20 years. (2)
2. A single decision can determine one's life path. My seminal moment came on my nineteenth
birthday. A friend stopped by to help me celebrate. At the time, I'd been experimenting with all
kinds of illicit drugs. Marijuana had been the first. Soon the world was a veritable candy store:
alcohol, uppers, downers, psychedelics—there was a pharmaceutical cocktail for every mood.
Combine this with the invincibility of youth, and life became one long party that could last for
eternity. Or so it seemed. My true goal was self-anesthetization from the pains and pangs of life.
(4)
3. On my nineteenth birthday, however, I crossed a further threshold. For the first time, I tried
heroin, and the drug became my life partner for the next two decades. (1)
4. At first, there were no meetings in dark alleys or dingy bars. Drug use was easy and attractive.
Heroin was just another adventure in life’s journey. A negative experience might have been the
best thing to happen on that nineteenth birthday, but that wasn't the case. I felt right at home in the
sedated euphoric haven caused by the drug. (1)
5. The insidious danger of heroin is that in early use, you feel like a master. You feel you can take it
or leave it; therefore, quitting holds no urgency. (1)
6. Year after year passed. I went to school and became a social worker. It was all right; I just needed
to use responsibly. Can you believe that? A responsible heroin addict. (2)
7. By age 30, the addiction was a way of life. The pain was great, an all-consuming dull hum of
hopelessness and dependence that possessed my life. Greeting the day was a chore of the greatest
magnitude. Sometimes I would sleep until 5:00 p.m. because the light was too revealing. I was a
creature of the night, a vampire sucking family and friends for all they were worth. (3)
Source: Daniel Zanoza, "Back from the Brink," in A Reader for Developing Writers, 4th ed., Santi Buscemi, Ed., New
York, McGraw-Hill, 1999, p. 178.
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