FIGURES OF SPEECH

Her face can launch a thousand ships.

• Smile

• Personification

• hyperbole

The Lord is my shepherd.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

The trees and flowers are dancing in her garden

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

The big bad bear bored the baby bunnies by the bushes.

• Simile

• Assonance

• Alliteration

The best part about music class is that you can bang on the drum.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

"Hear the mellow wedding bells" - "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Simile

Simile is a direct comparison between two unlike things.

• True

• False

Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement to emphasize a point.

• True

• False

She is as lovely as an angel.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

is a figure of language when words that start with the same sound (not just the same letter) are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Assonance