Figurative Languages Flashcards
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The drilling of oil is like putting a straw into a smoothie. A tube goes down and then the liquid gets sucked up.
Analogy
A lawyer goes to jail.
Irony
Hungry like a wolf.
Simile
My mom has a heart of gold.
Metaphor
The stars danced in the sky.
Personification
🕊️
Symbolism
The couple looked like Romeo and Juiliet
Allusion
When I play the piano, I could feel my fingers playing music so beautifully the sound could touch the sky.
Imagery
“I wanna dance dance dance dance”
Repetition
Between trees
Assonance
Peter Piper picked a pipe of pickled peppers
Consonance
Break a leg!
Idiom
The bees buzzed as the passed the flowers.
Onomatopoeia
A singer in a smoky room,
the smell of wine and cheap perfume.
Rhyme
Youth is wasted on the young.
Paradox
Cold fire.
Oxymoron
Salt and pepper. Good cop bad cop.
Juxtaposition
So many places in so little time.
Anaphora
The fog comes
on little cat fee.
It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
Free Verse
The best coffee shop in the world.
Hyperbole
“Do you mind if you do the dishes,” said mom.
Rhetorical Questions/Answers
Hickory, dickory, dock
The mouse ran up the clock,
Structured Rhythm with/without rhyme.
