From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues come ‘antonomasia’! Antonomasia is that figure of speech that employs a suitable epithet or appellative to cite a person or thing rather than the original name. Confused? Don’t be! To put it in simple terms, antonomasia is a rhetoric way …

“You agree to disagree to the solution, which Jack gave you the previous day?” Well, you can see the way the statement has an opposite opinions placed in one line. This is called antithesis – a figure of speech which contrasts ideas, words and concepts in one sentence. However, contrasting …

Antimetaboles are figures of speech that you might have come across a dozen of times in course of a conversation or while reading a piece of literature, but just ignored it as any other phrase or idiomatic expression. An antimetabole refers to two unique arrangements of words in a particular …

विलोम (Antonyms) एक़-दूसरे के विपरीत या उल्टा अर्थ देने वाले शब्द विलोम कहलाते है। सरल शब्दों में – जो शब्द किसी दूसरे शब्द का उल्टा अर्थ बताते हैं, उन्हें विलोम शब्द या विपरीतार्थक शब्द कहते है। जैसे: अपेक्षा-नगद, आय-व्यय, आजादी-गुलाम, नवीन-प्राचीन शब्द एक दूसरे के उलटे अर्थ वाले शब्द है। अतः इन्हें …

NCERT 7th Class (CBSE) Social Science: Elements of Weather and Climate – Quiz 11 Multiple Choice Questions related to NCERT 7th Class (CBSE) Social Science: Elements of Weather and Climate – Quiz: The elements of weather are air temperature, air pressure, winds, humidity etc. The amount of solar radiation received …

Surely, you’ve come across literary works or movies where an idea is being described and suddenly it transforms into something less significant. By definition, anticlimax terms/phrases are figures of speech in which statements or ideas descend according to their importance. To put it in simpler words, a serial arrangement of …

There are certain sets of rules in grammar that you have to follow in order to ensure right usage of the language. Antecedents, with which you might be quite familiar, assist you in framing sentences on your own. Antecedents can be understood as words, phrases or even clauses that have …

After reading any of Shakespeare’s works, have you ever felt like his words are being mixed up? Yes, this is the use of the figure of speech called anastrophe. Derived from the Greek word, anastrophe means ‘turning back or about’. It can be defined as the reversal of the normal …

Question: Name any four forms of media. Answer: Newspapers, television, magazines and Internet. Question: Give examples for the means of communication in the ancient world. Answer: The means of communication in the ancient world were: People used drums to communicate over long distances, or runners carried the information. Later, there …

Question: Distinguish between Weather and climate. Answer: Weather and Climate: Question: Distinguish between Heat and Temperature, Convection and Advection and Latitude and Altitude Answer: Heat and Temperature Convection and Advection Latitude and Altitude