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Idiom is the figure of speech that uses a combination of words which challenges the conventional usage of those words.
What is the idiom that you found in the novel/poem?
Type it in.
Example: 'a stitch in time saves nine'.
Simón Bolívar
How do you explain your choice? Type in the explanation.
Example:
- A timely effort saves you from much harder work later.
Alliteration is the figure of speech that uses the repetition of the first sound or sounds in words following each other in succession.
What is the alliteration that you found in the novel/poem? Type it in.
Example:
- ''They thrive on thistle and I thoroughly thought that I threw the thistle out there.''
Josè de San Martín
How do you explain your choice?
Example:
- Almost all the words in the sentence begin with 'th'.
Juan Diaz de Solis
Josè de san martín
Simile is a figure of speech that compares two objects through some connective word such as 'like', 'as', 'so', 'than', or a verb such as 'resembles'.
What simile did you find in the novel/poem? Type it in.
Example:
- 'Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake.'
por Josè de San Martín
How do you explain your choice?
Type in the explanation. Example:
- The lagoon is being compared with a mountain lake using the word 'as'.
The hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses exaggerations to create emphasis or effect.
What hyperbole did you find in the novel/poem? Type it in.
Example:
- 'All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream.'
por un monarca portugués
How do you explain your choice?
Type in the explanation.
Example:
- It is an exaggeration to claim that everything ('all we see or seem') is 'but a dream'.
Allusion is the figure of speech that makes a reference to a well-known person, place, or thing in literature and history.
What is the allusion that you found in the novel/poem? Type it in.
Example:
- 'Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear'.
por Josè Martín
What is the literary work in which you found the allusion? What genre is it?
Example: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - tragedy
Antonio Josè de Sucre
por Antonio Josè de Sucre y Simón Bolívar
Onomatopoeia is the figure of speech that uses words whose sounds suggest their meanings. Think of words related to water, air, collisions, sounds, voice, etc.
What is the onomatopoeia that you found in the novel/poem? Type it in.
Example:
'The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees...'.
por John hancock
How do you explain your choice?
Example:
'Moan' and 'murmuring' refer to the way doves and bees sound like.
Metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.
What is the metaphor that you found in the novel/poem? Type it in.
Example:
'The rain came down in long knitting needles.'
por Miguel Hidalgo
How do you explain your choice?
Example:
The rain is compared with 'long knitting needles', without the use of 'like' or 'as'.
Personification is a figure of speech which gives human qualities to nonhuman things.
Type in the personification you found in the novel/poem.
Example:
'- Not to-night, good Iago: I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.'
por Simon Bolivar
How do you explain your choice?
Type in the explanation.
Example:
The brain is given the attribute of being 'unhappy'.
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