Figurative Languages Flashcards

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1
Q

The drilling of oil is like putting a straw into a smoothie. A tube goes down and then the liquid gets sucked up.

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Analogy

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2
Q

A lawyer goes to jail.

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Irony

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3
Q

Hungry like a wolf.

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Simile

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4
Q

My mom has a heart of gold.

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Metaphor

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5
Q

The stars danced in the sky.

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Personification

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6
Q

๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ

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Symbolism

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7
Q

The couple looked like Romeo and Juiliet

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Allusion

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8
Q

When I play the piano, I could feel my fingers playing music so beautifully the sound could touch the sky.

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Imagery

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9
Q

โ€œI wanna dance dance dance danceโ€

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Repetition

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10
Q

Between trees

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Assonance

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11
Q

Peter Piper picked a pipe of pickled peppers

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Consonance

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12
Q

Break a leg!

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Idiom

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13
Q

The bees buzzed as the passed the flowers.

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Onomatopoeia

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14
Q

A singer in a smoky room,
the smell of wine and cheap perfume.

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Rhyme

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15
Q

Youth is wasted on the young.

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Paradox

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16
Q

Cold fire.

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Oxymoron

17
Q

Salt and pepper. Good cop bad cop.

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Juxtaposition

18
Q

So many places in so little time.

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Anaphora

19
Q

The fog comes
on little cat fee.
It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

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Free Verse

20
Q

The best coffee shop in the world.

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Hyperbole

21
Q

โ€œDo you mind if you do the dishes,โ€ said mom.

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Rhetorical Questions/Answers

22
Q

Hickory, dickory, dock
The mouse ran up the clock,

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Structured Rhythm with/without rhyme.