FIGURES OF SPEECH

The dentist had a severe toothache

• synecdoche

• paradox

• antithesis

• irony

1. Mr. Sharma thought the sweets were calling him.

• apostrophe

• personification

• chaimus

• pun

1. I would forgive you when pigs fly.

• litotes

• personification

• hyperbole

• apostrophe

1. Death touched Miss David with its icy fingers.

• litotes

• hyperbole

• personification

• euphemism

1. The sausages tasted awfully good.

• idiom

• paradox

• antithesis

• oxymoron

• Her cat is near the computer to keep an eye on the mouse.

• irony

• pun

• idiom

• hyperbole

The Bench decided that the man is guilty

• synecdoche

• pun

• irony

• metonymy

O William, you should be living now to see all this.

• personification

• apostrophe

• hyperbole

• pun

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure

• metonymy

• chiasmus

• oxymoron

• paradox

I couldn’t sleep. All I could hear was the drip, drip, drip of the faulty faucet.

• pun

• onomatopoeia

• irony

• simile