Figures of Speech

What figure of speech is this?

"Blue baby bonnets bobbed through the bayou."

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Anaphora

• Hyperbole

What figure of speech is this?

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

• Irony

• Synecdoche

• Onomatopoeia

• Anaphora

What figure of speech is this?

"I've told you to stop a thousand times."

• Euphism

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

What figure of speech is this?

"A traffic cop gets suspended for not paying his parking tickets."

• Oxymoron

• Irony

• Simile

• Metaphor

What figure of speech is this?

"It's just a scratch - referring to a large dent."

• Synecdoche

• Oxymoron

• Understatement

• Euphemism

What figure of speech is this?

"Fell of the back of a truck' instead of stolen."

• Euphemism

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Assonance

What figure of speech is this?

"The snowflakes danced."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

What figure of speech is this?

"The world is a stage."

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

What figure of speech is this?

"As slippery as an eel."

• Simile

• Anaphora

• Understatement

• Hyperbole

What figure of speech is this?

"Oh hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. (Wordsworth)"

• Euphemism

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron