figurative language

Verbal Irony is

• a play of words

• the speaker saying one thing but meaning another

• an exaggeration

• an illogical expression that means something else

An exaggeration that will never happen

A phrase that compares two unlikely things using "like" or "as" is a

A phrase comparing two unlikely things

"A boiled egg for lunch is hard to beat"

• personification

• allusion

• euphemism

• pun

A group of words that are self-contradicting is a(n)

• oxymoron

• pun

• allusion

• idiom

An idiom is

• a reference to a person, place, or idea with great significance

• a phrase that gives human qualities to nonhuman things

• group of words that are self-contradicting

• an illogical expression that means something else

"His cruel words are a sword to my heart."

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

• euphemism

"Lightning McQueen was extremely upset for losing the race."

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

• metaphor

"I love studying for a test every week!"

• personification

• verbal irony

• allusion

• hyperbole