Figures of Speech

Sarah’s seven sisters slept soundly in the sand.

• Anaphora

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

The bombs go Boom! Boom! Boom!

• Anaphora

• Onomatopoeia

• Repetition

• Personification

At last, luck smiled at me.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Rest in peace, Grammar.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Apostrophe

• Personification

My friend married a Zeus.

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Euphemism

• Allusion

I came in like a wrecking ball.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• 'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs

  From ten thousand lightning bugs

As they tried to teach me how to dance

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Apostrophe

We push and pull like a magnet do.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

The louder you are, the less they hear

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

See the lights,

See the party, the ball gowns
See you make your way through the crowd

• Assonance

• Anaphora

• Consonance

• Epiphora