identify the Device

Stop beat around the bush

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

The silence in the room was deafening.

• • Symbolism

• • Hyperbole

• • Onomatopoeia

• • Oxymoron

My children are so brilliant the highest average in the house in 55. Look at what my hard-working money is doing.

• sarcasm

• pun

• irony

It was a free gift that cost nothing at all.

• emotive language

• analogy

• Tautology

Her voice was like nails on a chalkboard.

• oxymoron

• simile

• alliteration

Time is a thief; it steals away our moments.

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• metaphor

• idom

• personification

Mary called to let us know that her mother is now with the Lord

• Euphemism

• irony

• satire

The fire station is on fire

• sarcasm

• irony

• pun

• Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.

• paradox

• pun

• alliteration

• The bees were buzzing around the flowers.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• pun