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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.''
How do you explain your choice?
Example:
- Almost all the words in the sentence begin with 'th'.
What is the literary work
in which you found the alliteration? Type in the genre.
Example: Thank You for the Thistle by Dorie Thurston - short story.
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.'
How do you explain your choice?
Type in the explanation. Example:
- The lagoon is being compared with a mountain lake using the word 'as'.
What is the literary work in which you found the simile?
Is it a novel, short story or poem?
Example: Lord of the flies by William Golding - novel.
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.'
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'.
What is the literary work in which you found the hyperbole? Is it a novel, short story or poem?
Example: A dream within a dream by Edgar Allan Poe - poem.
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.'
How do you explain your choice?
Example:
The rain is compared with 'long knitting needles', without the use of 'like' or 'as'.
What is the literary work in which you found the metaphor? Is it a novel, short story or poem?
Example:
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold - novel.
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.'
How do you explain your choice?
Type in the explanation.
Example:
The brain is given the attribute of being 'unhappy'.
What is the literary work in which you found the personification? What is its genre?
Example:
Othello by William Shakespeare - tragedy