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Figures of speech

Identifying figures of speech

Figure of SpeechExample
Simile He's as stubborn as a mule.
Personification The fog comes slowly and embraces us in a wet blanket..
Hyperbole Everybody knows that!
Simile She walks as gracefully as a ballet dancer.
Simile She's as big as a bus.
Personification When I entered the bakery, the doughnuts screamed my name.
Personification The stars smile down at me.
Simile He's as blind as a bat.
Simile She never stops, as busy as a bee.
Personification I work the night shift: I go to work when the city sleeps.
Metaphor You are the apple of my eye.
Hyperbole He has got tons of money.
Metaphor Her grandmother was a rock.
Hyperbole He's fatter than an elephant.
Hyperbole My handbag weighs a ton.
Metonymy Lend me your ears.
Irony After begging for a cat and finally getting one, she found out she was allergic.
Hyperbole I've told you a hundred times...
Irony She had a lovebird called Brutus.
Personification Trees were dancing in the wind.
Irony The Titanic was supposed to be unsinkable. Yeah, right.
Metonomy The pen is mightier than the sword.
Metaphor A heart of stone
Metonymy The suits went out for lunch at the Savoy.
Onomatopoeia Ticktock, ticktock… the sound of the clock was all that could be heard in the hospital waiting room.
Understatement “It is a bit cold today,” when the temperature is 5 degrees below freezing.
Onomatopoeia I could hear their buzzing, so I knew there was a bee’s nest around here somewhere.
Synecdoche Give us our daily bread
Onomatopoeia We clapped our hands it time with the music.
Understatement “I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.”
Metonymy Give me a hand.
Synecdoche It is sure hard to earn a dollar these days.
Onomatopoeia Quack, quack went the ducks as we threw them our stale bread.
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