AP Figures of Speech

The ranch began losing money when the hired hands started to leave.

• Allusion

• Synecdoche

• apostrophe

"Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow!"

_{William Shakespeare}

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Synecdoche

Everyone knows that chocolate is my Achille's heal.

• Making the 20 layer chocolate cake for Mom's birthday party was a Titanic undertaking.

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

• Allusion

Mrs. Smith has 7 mouths to feed every single day.

• Allusion

• Synecdoche

• Pathetic Fallacy

I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio's.

• metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

When the hurricane blew in, the angry sea capsized the large boat.

• Personification

• Allusion

• Synecdoche

The Oval Office is very busy these days.

• personification

• metonymy

• ellipsis

• symbolism

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

• metonymy

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• caesura

Like Eve in Genesis Chapter one, Perry knows to much to ever be innocent.

• Apostrophe
• Allusion
• Synecdoche
• Metonymy

The Man is the problem, the Man. He keeps my people down. 

• Metonymy
• Allusion
• Verbal Irony
• Apostrophe