GR.7 FIGURATIVE SPEECH

The light danced on the surface of the water.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

My words are little jars for you to take and put upon a shelf.

• simile

• irony

• metaphor

• hyperbole

I've told you this 20,000 times.

• irony

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

A pilot has a fear of heights

• irony

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

She's as cold as ice.

• irony

• simile

• hyporbole

• personification

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

• irony

• hyperbole

• personification

• apostrophe

You are my sunshine.

• simile

• irony

• metaphor

• apostrophe

The bad new is that everybody got perfect in yesterday's test.

• irony

• hyperbole

• apostrophe

• personification

Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk to you again.

• irony

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• apostrophe

They fought like dogs and cats.

• irony

• simile

• metaphor

• personification