Figure Of Speech Flashcards
Metaphor
A comparison in which one thing is said to be another
Example: my mom is a teddy bear
Simile
A comparison of two things by using the words like or as
Example: he is as tall as a giraffe
Personification
Giving human qualities to animals or object
Example:the stars winked at me
Hyperbole
An exaggeration statement
My backpack weighs a ton
Idiom
An expression that doesn’t exactly mean what the words say
Example:she spilled the beans
Pun
A humorous play on words which suggests multiple meanings
Example:where do pankakes live? In a flat
Alliteration
The use of the same beginning constant sound in a line or verse
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Assonance
This a repetition of identical or similar vowel sound in a series of words , phrases and/or syllables
trY to lIght the fire
Onomonapia
A word that imitates the sound it represents
SPLASH! POP! CRASH!
Allusion
Don’t act like a scrooge
Oxymoron
Contradictory terms appear side by side known as a compressed paradox
Hells angels
Irony
Is the use of words that mean the opposite of what they mean especially in order to be funny
Ew that’s is delicious
Foreshadowing
When an author mentions or hints at something that will happen later in the stor
Little red riding hood she gave a hint on what was going to happen
Flashback
Little red riding hood flashback and remembered that her mom told her no to do what she said
When an author refers back to something that already took place in the story
