Figures of Speech
FIGURES OF SPEECH What are…. Simile Metaphor Hyperbole Oxymoron Metonymy … Read more
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FIGURES OF SPEECH What are…. Simile Metaphor Hyperbole Oxymoron Metonymy … Read more
Fit the right word in the right place. Choose the right word from the list off three words given at the end of each sentence. It was the first visit of the 8-year-old girl to the zoo. Her mother took her to the wire-fenced cage … Read more
Heading 2 Comprehension exercise with answers (for vocabulary building) The following passages were sourced from ‘The Economist’. The questions and answers are at the end of the write up. Before his best race, at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958, Milkha … Read more
Learn how to join sentences.. Q1. My closest friend’s father contracted Covid. He isolated himself in his small room. Answer .. On contracting Covid, my closest friend’s father isolated himself in his small room. Q2. My closest friend’s father contracted Covid. He isolated himself … Read more
Fast-track your English skill building.. Q1. Fill in the gaps with appropriate words. An old truck was loaded with nearly 15 tons of iron ore minerals. It was heading towards a steel plant. From the opposite side, a mini truck was coming. It was loaded … Read more
Comprehension exercise.. Read the following news and answer the questions marked red.Army’s Fort William in Kolkata set to be known as Vijay Durg ————————————————————————————–.————————– Passage —– In the latest step toward eliminating colonial practices and mindsets within the armed forces, Fort William in Kolkata, the … Read more
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats First stanze of the poem … Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring’d … Read more
Vocabulary building.. Fill in the blans with the best-fitting words… Q1. In the last seven days, I have seen two very disturbing images about human suffering that drove me to tears. Both are —————– (aerial, sky-high, tree-top) photos of scores of people in utter distress. … Read more
Fast-track your English skill … Q1. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate words. Turkey faced a huge disaster. One of its resort hotels was reduced to ashes by an—————— (massive accident, inferno, disaster). As the fire ———— (plunged, engulfed, submerged) the hotel, the … Read more
Fast-track your English skill building. …. Q1. Fill in the gaps with the best-fitting words. President Trump was sworn in as President of the United States of America. It makes him the 4th president of the country. As expected he gave a ———– (momentous, … Read more