WorksheetsStylistic devices N1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
Metaphor
Simile
Synecdoche
Hyperbole
Life is a highway.
Metonymy
Metaphor
Ellipsis
Oxymoron
I want to go but I can't.
Ellipsis
Irony
Antonomasia
Pun
The beginning of the end.
Paradox
Zeugma
Metaphor
Simile
This is just the false truth.
Synecdoche
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Irony
If it were a cold rainy day, you might say, " What a beautiful day!".
Paradox
Zeugma
Euphemism
Irony
The kettle is boiling
Metaphor
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Simile
She is as sly as a fox.
Simile
Antonomasia
Hyperbole
Pun
She is not ugly girl.
Understantement
Paradox
Zeugma
Litotes
You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish.
Zeugma
Irony
Oxymoron
Pun
Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.
Gradation
Antithesis
Epithet
Pun
Instead of the word "to die", you might use the word "pass away".
Simile
Antonomasia
Euphemism
Hyperbole
He took his hat and his leave.
Pun
Irony
Metaphor
Zeugma
The ship was lost with all hands.
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Irony
Pun
Justice is blind.
Periphrasis
Synecdoche
Zeugma
Personification
