35. _Death_ hath _sucked_ the honey of thy breath.
36. Our _chains are forged_.
37. I have _bought golden_ opinions.
38. The _hearth blazed_ high.
39. His words _fell softer than snows on the brine_.
40. _Night's candles are burnt out_, and _jocund Day stands tiptoe_ on the
misty mountain top.
+Direction+.--_In the first four sentences, use similes; in the second
four, metaphors; in the third four, personifications; in the last eight,
metonymies:--_
1. He _flew with the swiftness of an arrow_.
2. In battle some men _are brave_, others _are cowardly_.
3. His head is as full of plans _as it can hold_.
4. I heard a _loud_ noise.
5. Boston is the _place where_ American liberty _began_.
6. Our dispositions should grow _mild_ as we _grow old_.
7. _The stars can no longer be seen_.
8. In battle some men are _brave_, others are _cowardly_.
9. The cock tears up the ground for his family of _hens_ and _chickens_.
10. The waves _were still_.
11. The oak stretches out _its_ strong _branches_.
12. The flowers are the sweet and pretty _growths_ of the earth and sun.
13. English _vessels_ plow the seas of the two _hemispheres_.
14. Have you read _Lamb's Essays_?
15. The _water_ is boiling.
16. We have prostrated ourselves before the _king_.
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