Introduction to figures of speech | Pun, Metaphor, Allusion

Erin Brockovich, a single mother with no legal training, helped win a daunting court battle against a Goliath energy company.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Onomatopeia

_____________ an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. Such as something referring to history or past

He wanted his friends to realize that life is a journey and not a destination.

—Lynn H. Hough

• Verbal Irony

• Simile

• Metaphor

________ is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

He had hoped to find his missing watch, but he couldn't find the time.

• Pun

• Onomatopeia

Ernest remarked that the new book on anti-gravity was impossible to put down.

• Pun

• Alliteration

• Allusion

__________ is a figure of speech is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.