Question

1. read the text below, and answer the question that follows.

have you reckond a thousand acres much?
have you reckond the earth much?
have you practisd so long to learn to read?
have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
you shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
you shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
you shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
you shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
which figure of speech is used in this text?
hyperbole
metonymy
simile

Explanation:

• Hyperbole: It is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. In the text, phrases like "a thousand acres much?" and "the earth much?" are exaggerated ways of asking about the significance of large - scale concepts. It emphasizes the idea of re - evaluating one's perception of what is "much" or important.
• Metonymy: This is a figure of speech where a word or phrase is replaced by another word or phrase that is closely associated with it. There is no such substitution based on close association in the given text.
• Simile: Compares two different things using "like" or "as". There are no such comparison words or structures in the text.

Answer:

hyperbole