Consider these sentences for instance. ‘He went into the stable to feed the horses.’ ‘The incident happened few months ago, he got over it now.’ You would wonder why the words ‘into’ and ‘over’ are underlined. Well, they are referred to as prepositions, which are important parts of speech, without …

8th English Annual Examination (2018-19) School Name: Venkateshwar Global School, Sector 13, Rohini, Delhi 110085 India Time: 3 hours M.M: 80 Subject: English Class: 8 Date: 27/02/2019 General Instructions: The question paper is divided into three sections. Section A: Reading (20 marks) Section B: Grammar & Writing Skills (30 marks) Section C: Literature (30 marks) …

Synecdoche Examples:  The term ‘synecdoche’ might seem unfamiliar but you would’ve surely come across such words or sentences in written text. It can be defined as a figure of speech where part of a sentence describes the entirety. The usage of synecdoche, thus, emphasizes a sentence delivering the right context …

Pun Examples: “Diet slogan: Are you going the wrong weigh?” Do you identify the twist on the word, weigh, which was originally supposed to be spelt ‘way’? Well, words which sound the same but have different meanings are called puns. A better way to describe it would be ‘a play …

Personification Examples: A personification is a figure of speech, which when used in the right way, can make your style of writing and conversing extremely artistic and intriguing. When you use personifications, you endow inanimate objects or abstractions with qualities, characters and abilities that are generally associated with humans. Assume …

Parallelism Examples: Parallelism is a rhetorical device that employs back-to-back verbal constructions in prose or poetry that corresponds in sound, structure, meter, meaning, etc. Besides adding certain symmetry to your writing, parallelism helps accentuate the main ideas and adds force to your expression. In poetry, it encompasses the arrangement of …

Types of Clauses: This is probably not the first time that you’re hearing about clauses. They follow you all the way from your grammar classes till now. And just like the other concepts of English grammar, clauses are also very important in written English. There are different types of clauses; …

Paralipsis Examples: English is a language which has several figures of speech, which we use in our day-to-day life but are still unaware of. If you can identify them then you will understand that they are integral part of most of the sentences. For instance, assume that a woman says, …

Jargon Examples: Jargon is not slang! Well, at least not always! It is a term that you might have come across while at your cabin in the work place or during a casual chat with your colleague out at a party. Jargon stands for a specific terminology that people follow …

Hyperbole Examples: Hyperbole is one of the most widely used figures of speech in everyday language, in literature or even in love poems. It is an effective communication tool that is used to catch the attention, to emphasize a contrast or even to deceive of idea of the readers. The …