Now let us check on different types of Figure of Speech. The Figure of Speech and its example are given below.
In a same poetic line, the repetition of the same consonant sound in several words is called as Alliteration. The Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter of the word in same line.
Example: So we must laugh and drink from the deep blue cup of the sky.
Here the alliteration are drink and deep, where it sounds “d”.
Ex: 1 Join the Jubilant song.
Ex: 2 Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
Ex: 3 Piles of Purple crystals.
Ex: 4 Yet when a crack causes.
It compares one thing with another thing of a different kind.
Your summer invited me into your fields to be present at your labour, at the birth of your jewel like fruits.
You appeared to me like a giant armed with furious tempests. This line is taken from the Poem “ Earth”.
Ex: 2 Here, Captain! Dear father!
Ex: 3 A notes as from a single place, a Slender tinkling fall that made.
Ex: 4 Then what gems would we see?
It is a group of words which has different meaning from the actual meaning of it.
Drag up a child – bring up a child without proper training.
Still waters run deep – Never Judge anything by its appearance.
The words that sounds similar, but have different spelling and meaning.
Ex: 1 I thought you guys were going to desert me!
The Cherry pie looks so good for dessert!
Here desert means an uninhabited land and dessert means eatable at the end of a meal.
Ex: 2 I’m trying hard to not lose patience with her.
The knot might not hold, since it’s sort of loose.
Now justify the difference by yourself.
The Non- Human Objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have ability to act like human beings.
Here do riddles relates to cosmic? No. So it is personification.
…….my manhood is cast down in the flood of remembrance’.
Choose the right answer. The Figure of speech in this line is _______.
Here Metaphor is flood of remembrance, where it compares memory with flood.
Ans: Alliteration. Here the alliteration is Welcome and Weary because it has same letter in 2 different words in same line.
The delicious cake in a Pastry shop make one’s mouth watery.
Desire something that one loves to eat.
A person who does not fit in.
To manage a different situation with courage.
Something one may feel to buy it.
Ans: a. It means, tempt to eat.
Ans: Here Idioms is wandering bark. Because it means ‘lost boat’.
Ans: Simile. Here “ as” is used. So it is simile.
Ans: Personification. Because it describes victory .
The Male candidates have alone received the mail from telecommunication department.
Ans: Homophones. Because, the male and mail differs in spelling and also has different meaning such as Male represents a Boy and Mail represents a Electronic mail.
I don’t know _______ to go for a hike or a swim in the rainy _______ condition.
Wether , whether b) weather , wether c) Whetheir , whether d) whether, weather.
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