Figures of Speech

A figurative description that uses a direct comparison

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Irony

A figurative description using a comparison with like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Euphamism

• Irony

The example of Metaphor we used was "God is our ______"

• Friend

• Flower

• Road buddy

• Rock

"I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing, I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me." - This means what?

• I am in very great debt

• Everything must change

• I am in very great trouble

• I need some money

What are the two examples of "similes" that we discussed in the notes?

• Like a rose

• Like a flower

• Like a shadow

• Like a father

WHen interpreting similies you must decide what important _________ the two things share

• Qualities

• Paths

• Families

• Relationships

Which was not a simile found in Job 7?

• Like the days of a hired man

• Like a servant

• like a hired man

• Like the hard working woman in the field

Job 7's similes meant that all human life involves what?

• Hard probles

• Rough times

• Hard work

• Easy living

Speaking of a non living things as if it were human

• Irony

• euphemism

• anthropomorphism

• personfiication

When interpreting personification remember that personification is a figure of speech not to be taken

• Figuratively

• literally

• seriously

• easily