ACTIVITY #2
Below are sentences that contain figurative language. Identify whether the following sentences are
Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, or Anaphora. Write your answers on the space provided before the
number
1. Silly sally sang a silly summer song.
6. Through this dread shape humanity
2. "Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is betrayed,
bright"
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,
3. This is the right time to show your love to
7. More tongued with censure of the world's
your neighbors, this is the right time to take the
blind greed-
opportunity to share the abundant blessings showered More filled with signs and portents for the soul-
upon you, this is the right time to do small things with More fraught with danger to the universe.
great love."
8. Is your earth happy or your heaven sure?
4. Whose breath blew out the light within this I hope for heaven, since the stars endure
brain?
And bring such tidings as our fathers had.
5. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
9. Black bug bit a big black bear.
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
10. Peter piper picked a peck of pickled
The emptiness of ages in his face...
peppers.​