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FIGURES OF SPEECH (NOTES, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS)
FGURES OF SPEECH
Alliteration: repetition of consonants close together e
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cuddling kittens
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g
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Assonance: repetition of vowels close together, e
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blue moon
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g
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Irony: a statement or situation that has an underlying meaning that is different from the literal meaning
e
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Standing in a storm and saying 'Nice weather
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g
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Oxymoron: two seemingly opposite words next to each other, e
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open secret
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g
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Simile: an indirect comparison, using the words like or as e
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as red as blood
Onomatopoeia: the word is the same as the sound, e
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zip
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g
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Personification: giving human qualities to an object or idea, e
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The wind howled
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g
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'
Symbol: an object standing for an idea, e
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Christianity is represented by a cross, and Islam by a
crescent moon
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g
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g
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Pun: a play on words which are identical or similar in sound
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g
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Activity Poem
Read the poem carefully and then answer the questions that follow
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Mid-Term Break- Seamus Heaney

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I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close
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In the porch met I my father crying He had always taken funerals in his stride And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow
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At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses
Next morning I went up into the room
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Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four-foot box as in his cot
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A four-foot box, a foot for every year
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Explain why the title of this poem is ironic
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Refer to line 2('Counting bells
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Discuss the appropriateness of the poet's use of the word "knelling in
the context of this poem
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What evidence is there in the poem to indicate that something terrible has happened? Mention TWO
points
4
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in his stride
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about funerals
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crazy
B
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calm
D
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Refer to Line 7 ('The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram')
(a) identify the figure of speech in the underlined words
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me home' and 'At ten o'clock
the ambulance arrived')
State the reason why the speaker remembers the exact times of the
above incidents
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Refer to line 10, ('And tell me they were sorry for my trouble')
a) Identify the tone in the old men's words
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Refer to stanza 7
Quote THREE consecutive words to prove that the following statement is TRUE
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Answers

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1 The word 'mid-term' means an occasional break, but in this poem it means a break of sadness
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3 a
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“In the porch I met my father crying”
4C
5 a
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It shows how the baby used to cooee and be happy in his pram
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7 a
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It was a trouble for him as he was too young to deal with the pain of loosing his younger brother
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“No gaudy scars”
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