WorksheetsFigures of Speech
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2mins
What figure of speech is this?
"Blue baby bonnets bobbed through the bayou."
Alliteration
Assonance
Anaphora
Hyperbole
What figure of speech is this?
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
Irony
Synecdoche
Onomatopoeia
Anaphora
What figure of speech is this?
"I've told you to stop a thousand times."
Euphism
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
What figure of speech is this?
"A traffic cop gets suspended for not paying his parking tickets."
Oxymoron
Irony
Simile
Metaphor
What figure of speech is this?
"It's just a scratch - referring to a large dent."
Synecdoche
Oxymoron
Understatement
Euphemism
What figure of speech is this?
"Fell of the back of a truck' instead of stolen."
Euphemism
Anaphora
Alliteration
Assonance
What figure of speech is this?
"The snowflakes danced."
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
What figure of speech is this?
"The world is a stage."
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Irony
Onomatopoeia
What figure of speech is this?
"As slippery as an eel."
Simile
Anaphora
Understatement
Hyperbole
What figure of speech is this?
"Oh hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. (Wordsworth)"
Euphemism
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
