What are examples of chiasmus?
Chiasmus is a figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following phrase, such that two key concepts from the original phrase reappear in the second phrase in inverted order. The sentence “She has all my love; my heart belongs to her,” is an example of chiasmus.
What is simile metaphor personification and alliteration?
This quiz helps you to revise alliteration (repetition of sounds), simile (like, as), rhyme (word endings sounding similar) and personification (life given to objects). Simile is similar to metaphor, except less direct. A simile compares one thing to another, using words such as “like” or “as ….. as”.
What are examples of assonance?
Assonance most often refers to the repetition of internal vowel sounds in words that do not end the same. For example, “he fell asleep under the cherry tree” is a phrase that features assonance with the repetition of the long “e” vowel, despite the fact that the words containing this vowel do not end in perfect rhymes.
What you mean by personification?
1 : attribution of personal qualities especially : representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form. 2 : a divinity or imaginary being representing a thing or abstraction.
Which sentence contains an example of personification?
The car belched and coughed as it lurched into life. The maple’s red leaves look so vibrantly alive and glowing. I felt like Cinderella at the end of the ball left holding one slipper. Paul Revere’s praise was sung across the land, but he was neither the only rider nor the bravest.
How do you identify simile metaphor and personification?
They include:
- Simile. A simile is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things and uses the words “like” or “as” and they are commonly used in everyday communication.
- Metaphor. A metaphor is a statement that compares two things that are not alike.
- Hyperbole.
- Personification.
- Synecdoche.
- Onomatopoeia.
Is Abba a chiasmus?
Chiasmus is a figure of speech that displays inverted parallelism. A simple chiasmus can be broken into parts labeled ABBA. For example, look at the following sentence: We ran away quickly; speedily, we fled.