FIGURES OF SPEECH

Personification
It is a figure of speech in which abstract ideas or
inanimate objects are treated as human beings
and given human qualities.

Identify personification in the following lines.

Rise, brothers, rise; the weakening skies pray to
the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like
a child that has cried all night.
 Alliteration
The repetition of the initial consonant sound in a
line is called alliteration.

Identify alliteration in the following lines.

The fair breeze blow, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
 Determiners
Determiners are words that are used before
nouns to determine their meaning. They define
or modify a noun to be singular or plural.

For example: a, an, the, this, that, these, those,

each, every, my, your, his, her, few, many, much,
what, which, whose
Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners.
• There are ________ papers on my desk.
• This answer script has _______ glaring errors.
• We do not have __________ crayons at home.
• Do we have _________ cake left in the fridge.
• She has __________ influence in the society.
• _______ one of us has worked hard to reach this position.
• _________ morning Nisha goes for jogging.
• _________ children deserve to be educated.
• ______ people know us in this neighbourhood.
• _______ the clothes in the cupboard re not mine.
• I didn’t use ________ fertiliser last spring.
• _______ students wanted to go for the trip.
• They say __________ knowledge is a dangerous thing.
• My sister doesn’t drink __________ coffee.
• I am having ___________ trouble passing my driving test.
• _____________ student will write two essays.