Afrikaans First Additional Language · Grade 12 CAPS
Figures of Speech & Literary Devices
Figures of Speech & Literary Devices is one of 9 topics in the Grade 12 Afrikaans First Additional Language CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
Easy
1. Which Afrikaans word is typically used as the comparing word in a simile ("vergelyking")?
Soos
Is
Was
Het
Answer: Soos — "Soos" (like/as) is the typical comparing word used in an Afrikaans simile, directly stating a comparison between two different things.
Easy
2. In "Die wind het deur die bome gefluister" (The wind whispered through the trees), which figure of speech is used?
Personification
Simile
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Answer: Personification — Personification ("personifikasie") gives a human action (whispering) to something non-human (the wind).
Medium
3. What Afrikaans word means "metaphor", a figure of speech that directly states one thing IS another, without using "soos"?
Answer: Metafoor — "Metafoor" (metaphor) compares two things directly, without a comparing word like "soos", stating that one thing simply IS the other.
