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Figures of speech ex
Figures of speech, examples
Question | Answer |
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Simile EX. | As busy as a bee. |
Metaphor EX. | Time is a thief. |
Idiom EX. | A day late, a dollar short. |
Personification EX. | Stars danced around playfully in the moonlit sky. |
Alliteration EX. | Alice's aunt ate apples around August. |
Onomatopoeia EX. | Words related to water: splash, drizzle, drop. |
Hyperbole EX. | It was so cold I saw a polar bear wearing a jacket. |
Anaphora EX. | We laughed, we loved, we sang. |
Assonance EX. | Uncertain rustling of each purple curtain. |
Irony EX. | The Titanic was said to be unsinkable. |
Oxymoron EX. | Jumbo shrimp. |
Euphemism EX. | In the use of words like toilet for lavatory and die for pass away. |
Pun EX. | I would tell you a joke about pizza but its too cheesy. |
Paradox EX. | This statement is false. |
Understatement EX. | I have this operation. it isn't very serious, i have a small tumor in my brain. |
Chiasmus EX. | You forget what you want to remember, but remember what you forget. |
Antithesis EX. | Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. |