Devices
This literary device describes a series of words in quick succession that all start with the same letter or sound.
What is Alliteration?
Make this sentence correct: Where can I get a calender.
Calender should spell Calendar?
Make this date correct:
Tuesday February 16, 2021
What should be ?
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Make the statement correct:
The lady has two daughter-in-laws.
What should be:
The lady has two daughters-in-law.
Jeff Bezos is the owner and CEO of this online conglomerate.
What is Amazon?
This device is used to exaggerate.
What is a hyperbole?
Jason have being doing a great job.
Which should be: Jason has been doing a great job?
Make the statement below correct:
Mother's Day is celebrated all over the world.
What is should be?
Mothers' Day is celebrated all over the world.
A plural verb takes "S".
What is false?
He was the only President to be impeached for having a sexual relationship with a White House attendant.
Who is Bill Clinton?
While a simile uses these two words by comparing, this device says the thing or person is what is being compared.
What is a metaphor?
Make the correction:
He is the man whom I saw last night.
What should be?:
He is the man who I saw last night.
This is the most used punctuation mark.
What is the full stop?
Words such as pants, compasses, binoculars are plural words.
What is false?
This famous black man known for starring in this family sitcom name after was convicted for sexual assault by several white women.
Who is Bill Cosby?
This device is an indirect, “polite” way of describing something too inappropriate or awkward to address directly.
What is Euphemism?
Make the correction:
John went further then he ever been before.
What should be :
John went farther than he ever been before.
This punctuation mark is used to report direct speech.
What is the Inverted Comma or Quotation Mark?
Make the sentence correct:
Mr. Brown said, "Have everyone heard their name?" "Yes," the students replied.
What is should be? :
Mr. Brown said, "Has everyone heard his/her name?" "Yes," the students replied.
We cry together, sleep together, see together but never see each other.
What are your eyes?
This device refers to words that sound like the thing they’re referring to.
What is an Onomatopeia?
Joseph was a honest man, he returned the money he found at the ATM.
What should be, Joseph was an honest man, he returned the money he found at the ATM?
I am used when listing items or I may take the place of the word "And".
What is a comma?
The Americans use this word both as subject (noun) and a verb but Jamaicans have two different spellings for it. Maybe it is because we love when it is changed.
What is cheque?
This disease surfaced in 1918 and claim millions of lives..
What is the Spanish Flu?