Stylistic Devices Revision

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Synecdoche

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Life is a highway.

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

• Ellipsis

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The beginning of the end.

• Paradox

• Zeugma

• Metaphor

• Simile

This is just the false truth.

• Synecdoche

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

If it were a cold rainy day, you might say, " What a beautiful day!".

• Paradox

• Zeugma

• Euphemism

• Irony

The kettle is boiling

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

She is as sly as a fox.

• Simile

• Antonomasia

• Hyperbole

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

She is not ugly girl.

• Understantement

• Paradox

• Zeugma

• Litotes

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish.

• Zeugma

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.

• Gradation

• Antithesis

• Epithet

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5