Rhetorical & Figurative Devices

Match the term to the correct example:

• You were the light for me to find my truth.

• Oxymoron

• "You have to spend money to make money."

• Metaphor

• "A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance.."

• Simile

• "Rough in the ghetto, but in jail he's jello"

• Juxtaposition

• small crowd

• Paradox

This devices uses "like" or "as":

• paradox

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Zombies are the living dead.

• not an oxymoron

• oxymoron

"The health professionals are soldiers protecting us from our fight against the Covid 19 Pandemic." This is an example of what figure of speech?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.
• His room looked as if a hurricane came  through.
• A hurricane! AHHH!
• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

"Water is cheaper than diamonds, yet humans need water, not diamonds, to survive."

• hyperbole
• paradox
• allusion 
• simile

Simile or Metaphor:
Math is like a puzzle that never ends.

• simile
• metaphor

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

The pain is like an axe that chops my heart.

• metaphor

• paradox

• simile

• oxymoron

deafening silence

• oxymoron 
• paradox
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration