Figures of Speech

I’m so hungry I could eat a horse

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

The sun draped its arms around my shoulders

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Life is a beach!

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant

to be understood as literally true

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Figure of Speech

a figure of speech that shows the relationship between words or ideas

• analogy

• anthology

• acronym

• hyperbole

Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally; commonly known as figures of speech is called

• simile

• figurative language

• hyperbole

The river falls under us like a trap door.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

“Don’t delay dawn’s disarming display. Dusk demands daylight.”

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

I’ve heard that joke a billion times, but it still cracks me up!

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole