Figures of Speech

:clasps the crag with crooked hands:

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Simile

Answer explanation

C is repated (Alliteration)

Carter remarked that the new book on anti-gravity was :impossible to put down:

• Pun

• Alliteration

• Similie

firefighters :worked around the clock: in an effort to control the blaze

• Pun

• Idiom

• Verbal Irony

• Allusion

I got hit in the head by a can of soda. Luckily it was a soft drink.

• Similie

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Pun

:The brush grabbed: at his legs in the dark until one knee of his jeans ripped.

Julia gazed at the ancient pug that seemed to sleep all day and noted, "You're an energetic puppy!"

• Verbal Irony

• Idiom

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

"There's nothing I love more than skipping lunch," Mr. Wyatt told the flight attendant when he learned that no food would be available on his cross-country flight.

• Pun

• Verbal Irony

• Personification

The hum of the computer concerned Vince. Was the problem with the power supply or the hard drive?

• Onomatopoeia

• Pun

• Metaphor

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger, and then suddenly it hit me.

• Personification

• Verbal Irony

• Pun

Answer explanation

The text uses a pun, a word or phrase that humorously suggests more than one meaning.

It hit me means that the ball struck me. It also means that I suddenly realized why the ball was getting bigger.