Figure of speech Palindrome

Figure of speech Palindrome: A palindrome is a word that reads the same even when it is read backwards. Some phrases and some sequence of words are also palindromes. In sequence of words punctuation and the spaces of words are allowed. For example ‘step on no pets’ read the same when read backwards. “Red rum, sir, is murder’ can also be read the same backwards but the space and punctuation will change. The word palindrome is derived from the Greek words ‘palin’ meaning ‘back’ and ‘dromos’ meaning ‘direction’. It was originally used to refer to the crab’s backward movement.

Practise Exercise

Find the Palindrome with the clues given

1. A small cloth tied around the neck of babies
2. Father
3. Past tense of a word that means moistened
4. A term to address a woman
5. This word pertains to cities
6. A light canoe
7. To even out
8. A sense organ
9. An act or an action
10. To get with great difficulty. Archaic
11. A locating device
12. Before
13. Gender, plural
14. A principle
15. To put a cloth over someone’s mouth
16. To keep quiet
17. To send someone to a particular place for help, treatment, advice
18. A rotating machine part
19. Twelve in the day
20. A woman belonging to a religious order
21. To look slyly
22. Something that is a complete failure
23. A light two-wheeled one-horse carriage
24. It is a language in India
25. A part of a bird’s wing
26. A word used to show surprise
27. To make a short, high sound with a horn or whistle
28. A musical note
29. A Muslim scholar
30. The pineapple

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Figure of Speech – Metonym