Month: March 2018

Alliteration occurs when a series of words in a row (or close together) have the same first consonant sound.

For example, “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore”

or

“Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers” are both alliterative phrases.

A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning and/or spelling.

by, buy, bye,

ant/aunt

eye/I

grate/great

lie/lye

meet/meat

to/two/too

urn/earn

Homonyms are two words that are spelled the same and sound the same, but have different meanings.

Therefore, a homonym is a word that has the same name as another word, meaning that the two words look and sound exactly alike.

A simple example of a homonym is address (location)

1. Bear (an animal)                                      Bear (to withstand or hold up)
2. Can (a metal container)                      Can  (able to)
3. Band (a musical group)                       Band (a ring)
4. Bark (a tree’s out layer)                      Bark (the sound a dog makes)
5. Current (up to date)                             Current (flow of water)

Antithesis, which literally means “opposite,” is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

It is when you assign the qualities of a person to something that isn’t human or that isn’t even alive, like nature or emotions. There are many reasons for using personification. It can be used as a method of describing something so that others can more easily understand it.

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect