Identify the figures of speech in the sentences.
Irony and Metonymy
Alliteration and Simile
Pun and Personification
Euphemism and Metonymy
Euphemism - It is a polite way of calling him ‘mad’.
China is a metonym for the Chinese military.
The poem is narrated in the first person by the brook. This figure of speech is ________.
(i) Personification
(ii) Metaphor
(iii) Simile
(iv) Transferred epithet
(a) The poet uses alliteration to heighten the musical quality of the sonnet.
Working in pairs, underline the examples of alliteration in the poem.
(b) Identify Shakespeare's use of personification in the poem.
Personification is a figure of speech that attributes human qualities to inanimate things and abstract ideas. How has it been used in the poem?
There are three things that will endure: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.