Identify the Figure of speech [5 marks] 1. She could eat one million pancakes as she was very hungry. 2. There was a rainbow of flavours in the pizza tonight. 3. The cereal went crackle, pop, snap, when he poured the milk. 4. The strawberry was a fresh summer day. 5. The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.
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Answer:
1. Hyperbole (exaggeration of hunger by the phrase 'one million pancakes')
2. Metaphor (flavours are directly compared to 'rainbow')
3. Onomatopoeia (sound words 'crackle', 'pop' and 'snap')
4. Metaphor (strawberry compared to a fresh summer day)
5. Personification (rain is given a human quality)
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The answers to the above questions are as follows:
1) She could eat one million pancakes as she was very hungry.
- The figure of speech is Hyperbole.
- Hyperbole is an intentional exaggeration, it is not intended to be taken literally.
- Here, one million pancakes interprets exaggeration.
2) There was a rainbow of flavors in the pizza tonight.
- The figure of speech is a Metaphor.
- Metaphor is used for rhetorical effect, it refers to one thing by mentioning another also it compares.
- Here, flavors are directly compared to rainbow.
3) The cereal went crackle, pop, snap when he poured the milk.
- The figure of speech is Onomatopoeia.
- Onomatopoeia is said when a thing or action has imitation of the sound associated with it.
- Here, pop, crackle, snap give sound effects.
4) The strawberry was a fresh summer day.
- The figure of speech is a Metaphor.
- Metaphor is used for rhetorical effect as well as comparison.
- Here, strawberry is compared to a fresh summer day.
5) The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.
- The figure of speech is Personification.
- Personification is used when we give an object a human attribute.
- Here, rain is given a human attribute.