Figures of speech

What figure of speech can be found in the sentence:

She is the apple of my eye.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

What is the figure of speech used in the following:

Father Anthony cried a river of tears.

• idiom

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

What figure of speech is used here:

My mother is like a star in the sky.

• simile

• metaphor

• metonymy

• personification

What figure of speech is used here:

The trees are dancing together with the wind.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

You are the sunshine of my life

is an example of:

• personification

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

Necessity is the mother of invention.

is an example of:

• personification

• metaphor

• eponymy

• oxymoron

The Titanic was said to be unsinkable but sunk on its very first voyage.

This is an example of:

• paradox

• irony

• personification

• simile

He said it was just a small scratch referring to a large dent.

• understatement

• synechdoche

• irony

• metaphor

I don't hate it!

is an example of:

• idiom

• metonymy

• alliteration

• litotes

Read the definition and choose the word that best fits the blank:

.... is a figure of speech where we use the name of one thing for another closely related to it

(e.g. “How would the Pentagon react?” - Pentagon instead of the US Department of Defense)

• metonymy

• metaphor

• understatement