FIGURES OF SPEECH

1. Identify the figure of speech -1) Writers use literary devices in their poems, like artists blending colours on a canvas.

• simile

• metaphor

• anaphora

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

1. Identify the figure of speech. 2) The train went ‘choo-choo’ down the track.

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Answer explanation

It imitates the sound of a train horn.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

3) The river sang a soothing lullaby as it flowed peacefully.

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• anaphora

Answer explanation

It attributes human-like quality (singing a lullaby) to a river.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

4) Her smile was a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day.

• simile

• metaphor

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Answer explanation

Here, ‘smile’ is being compared to ‘a ray of sunshine.’ ‘A cloudy day’ is an implied comparison to a difficult or challenging situation.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

5) 1.    I have told you to clean your room a million times, but you still have not done it!

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Answer explanation

It exaggerates the number of times the speaker has asked someone to clean their room to emphasize the frustration and the apparent lack of improvement in the room's condition.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

6) I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi … will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!

• anaphora

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Answer explanation

‘I have a dream’ is an anaphora unlike ‘repetition’ as it is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. It is repeated to emphasize on the central theme of the speech.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4