Fig. Lang./Types of Sentences

Front

Degree in business, job in marketing department.

Back

Complete Sentence

Front

Giving human traits to non-human things

Back

Personification

Front

Odysseus returns to Ithaca on a clear day.

Back

simple

Front

All impatience leaves him; he sits under an oak tree.

Back

Compound

Front

An hour passes in silence; he feels tried and decides to go home, picking up his sword and walking.

Back

Compound-Complex

Front

This school is an asylum.

Back

metaphor

Front

My stomach did a backflip.

Back

personification

Front

"I bolted out the door like a horse leaving the gate for a race."

Back

simile

Front

I waited a million years for my ride.

Back

hyperbole

Front

"She wasn't exactly running in the same circles as me."

Back

idiom