figures of speech

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron 

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

She is a woman with a stone heart.

• Alliteration 

• Synecdoche

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

The sun smiled down to the green meadows.

• Irony 

• Euphemism

• Synecdoche

• Personification

Charles Shively, 94, passed away at home and went to be with the lord on April 22 2004, from natural causes. 

• Synecdoche  

• Euphemism     

• Oxymoron

• Personification

The White House asked the television network for air(直播) on Monday night.

• Synecdoche 

• Metonymy

• Irony  

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.4

Don’t bother him! He already has a mountain of homework to do.

• Simile         

• Irony    

• Hyperbole   

• Personification

You are an excellent goalkeeper, allowing the other side to score six goals.

• Simile  

• Euphemism    

• Irony          

• Metonymy

 Many eyes turned to a tall, 20 years old black girl in the U.S. team.

• Alliteration  

• Synecdoche

• Simile  

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

He came, he saw, and he conquered.

• Metaphor 

• Synecdoche      

• Parallelism    

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

When the news of the failure came, all his friends said that was a victorious defeat.

• Oxymoron

• Synecdoche

• Simile

• Metonymy