Figures of Speech

What is the importance of studying figures of speech?

Is this sentence "I came into school late today." an example of FOS?

• Maybe

• Yes

• No

What’s the difference between anaphora, alliteration, assonance and consonance?

• Anaphora repeats the vowel sound in successive clauses or phrases: Assonance repeats the word or phrase in successive clauses or phrases: Consonance repeats the consonant sound in the beginning successive clauses or phrases: Alliteration repeats the consonant sound anywhere in successive clauses or phrases

• Anaphora repeats the word or phrase in successive clauses or phrases: Assonance repeats the vowel sound in successive clauses or phrases: Consonance repeats the consonant sound anywhere in successive clauses or phrases: Alliteration repeats the consonant sound in the beginning of successive clauses or phrases

• Anaphora repeats the word or phrase in successive clauses or phrases: Assonance repeats the consonant sound in successive clauses or phrases: Consonance repeats the consonant sound  in successive clauses or phrases: Alliteration repeats the consonant sound in the end of successive clauses or phrases

• Both consonance and alliteration repeats the consonant sound, while Anaphora repeats the vowel sound and assonance repeats the word or phrases in a phrases/verses/sentences.

The phrase “Our hour” is an example of what figures of speech?

• personification

• consonance

• alliteration

• assonance

What type of figures of speech does this sentence implies.

"Dawn goes down when her lawn was ransacked."

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

"Men sell the wedding bells."

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

Euphemism substitutes a _____word into a _____ word for it to be less offensive.

• harsh, harsh

• light, harsh

• harsh, light

• light, light

Guess what word these underlined euphemism terms are referring to.

Ex: She was UNDERPRIVILEGED, yet she is full of dreams.

Underprivileged means poor.

This bag is high quality, though I bought it at an ECONOMICAL price.

She lives on the streets.

Juliet is my better half.