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Question
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
She wept____________of tears.
Options
horse
lion
death
an ocean
ton
second
help
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Solution
She wept an ocean of tears.
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Match the Figures of Speech with the correct definition.
| Poetic Devices | |
| Figure | Definition |
| (1) Metaphor | (a) The use of the same sound at the beginning of words |
| (2) Alliteration | (b) An implied comparison. |
| (3) Onomatopoeia | (c) A comparison between two different things, especially a phrase, containing the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ |
| (4) Simile | (d) A word that resembles the sound it represents. |
Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Repetition:
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Onomatopoeia
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Alliteration
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Transferred Epithet
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
____________ but still we keep a bower quiet for us____________ .
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever____________
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They bring me tokens of myself.
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
No one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Antithesis
- ________________
- ________________
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Inversion
- ______________
- ______________
Explain the Figure of Speech in the following line.
Rest in the bottom lay-PUN because _________________.
Explain the Figure of Speech in the following line.
Bestow this jewel also on my creature-METAPHOR because ______________________.
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| Figures of Speech | Lines |
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___________________________ |
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___________________________ |
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Alliteration
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Pick out line that contain the following Figures of Speech.
Repetition
Match the lines of the poem with their Figures of speech.
| Group A | Group B | |
| (1) Whose woods these are I think I know | (a) | Alliteration |
| (2) The woods are lovely, dark and deep | (b) | Personification |
| (3) And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep. | (c) | Inversion |
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Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
Brrrr..! I am freezing to ____________.
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
I shall come over in just a ____________
Pick from the poem lines which contain the Figures of speech.
Onomatopoeia
The Figure of Speech ‘Apostrophe’ exists throughout the poem. Pick out the line where the poet directly addresses.
the dead Captain
- ____________
- ____________
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Personification
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Exclamation
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Antithesis
