FIGURES OF SPEECH

Life is a roller coaster.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The lake was left shivering by the touch of morning wind.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

Which is NOT an example of hyperbole?

• That woman has no self-control.

• If I don't get the latest iPhone, I'll die!

• I'd climb every mountain and swim every ocean to be with you.

• You were as quick as a cheetah.

dentify the figure of speech used: Her heels clacked on the hardwood floor.

• Metonymy

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Synecdoche

Irony is shown in which of the following sentences:

• Oh, you stupid car, you never work when I need you to," Dan cried.

• BSED English students have a ton of things to do when they get home.

• A man who needs medical assistance is run over by the ambulance.

• Vince was white as a sheet after he walked out of the horror movie

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. 

• Irony

• Paradox

• Puns

• Understatement

I am nobody.

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

• Irony

• Puns

The suits took more from him during the hearing than his wife would after the divorce.

• irony

• understatement

• synecdoche

• metonymy

The brains helped with my homework.

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

• Irony

• Paradox