Figures of Speech

My bag weighs a hundred pounds whenever I go to school.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Shiloh looked as red as the strawberry.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Brent is a green flag.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

The yellow daisies danced in the breeze.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

These people don’t know how financially declined I am right now.

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Euphemism

• Apostrophe

Rick sang so good he sounded like a whining horse.

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Euphemism

• Irony

SUPER Mingyu is my Roman Empire.

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Euphemism

• Irony

“My spaghetti has sauce with freshly-picked tomatoes from the high

mountains of Italy.”

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Euphemism

• Irony

He can’t ace the exams because of his academic incompetence.

• Simile

• Allusion

• Irony

• Euphemism

Verena is as beautiful as the red rose.

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole