Figures of Speech

The camel is the ship of the desert.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

"You killed my family and I don't like that kind of thing," is an example of what figure of speech?

• Understatement

• Anaphora

• irony

• Hyperbole

We use (figure of speech) to emphasize the importance or overstate something.

• Onomatopoeia

• irony

• Hyperbole

• Metonymy

"The bees buzzed around the garden" is an example of what figure of speech?

• Metaphor

• Synecdoche

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

"My mother is like a star in the night sky"

• Personification

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

• Simile

"He is as brave as the lion" is an example of metaphor.

• True

• False

Hyperbole is composed of a pair of contradictory words.

• True

• False

Understatement uses less than whatever is intended.

• True

• False

Synecdoche is the opposite of understatement.

• True

• False

"Arf! Arf! Whitey says" is an example of onomatopoeia.

• True

• False