English (Figures of Speech)

What are figures of speech ?

• Creating images or mind pictures in order express ourselves visually, imaginatively and powerfully.

• Using numbers when we speak.

• Counting in a specific language.

• Drawing pictures while we speak.

Select the correct definition of a metaphor?

• A picture to describe a word.

• The name of a planet.

• the repetition of a word.

• A comparison without the use of as or like.

Which is an example of personification?

• Autumn arrived in his coat of orange leaves.

• He is a Bill Gates.

• Football fever fuels fans.

• The sky exploded with a crash.

He was as brave as a lion.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

Butter bakes better biscuits is an example of ?

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Rhyming includes examples such as ?

• Eccentric Esther

• Rustling and whistling

• Certain and curtain

• Clap and hands

Onomatopoeia is best described through which example?

• The hissing fireworks on Guy Fawkes.

• Slowly mowing the lawn.

• The curtain was damaged in the rain again.

• Pride embraced her as she walked down the aisle.

Complete the following sentence: Assonance is the repetition of _______

• Consonants

• Sounds

• Vowels

• Rhymes

Complete the following sentence: Alliteration is the repetition of ________ ?

• Consonants

• Vowels

• Rhymes

• Sounds

The little duckling was pretty ugly.

• Allusion

• Irony

• Paradox

• Oxymoron