Figures Of Speech Flashcards
Metaphor
A comparison in which one thing is said to be another
My mom is a teddy bear
Hyperbole
An exaggeration statement
My backpack weighs a ton
Simile
A comparison of two things by using like or as
He’s as fat as an American McDonald’s consumer
Personification
Giving human qualities to animals or objects
The mirror cried when the fat man look in it
Idiom
An expression that doesn’t exactly mean what the words say
She spilled the beans
Pun
A humorous play on words which suggests multiple meaning
Seven days without pizza makes one weak
Alliteration
The use of the same beginning consonant sound in line or verse
Peter Piper picked a peach of pickled peppers
Assonance
A repetition of identical or similar vowel sound in a series of words.
ClAp your hAnds And stAmp your feet.
Onomatopoeia
A word that imitates the sound it represents
SPLASH, BOOM, POP
Allusion
A reference to a famous person, place, or event
Don’t act like Scrooge! (A Christmas Carol)
Oxymoron
Contradictory terms appear side to side
Criminal Justice, Great Depression, Hell’s Angels
Irony
Irony is use of words that means the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny
This is my brilliant sin who failed out of college
Foreshadowing
When an author mentions or hints that something will happen
Red riding hood:”Don’t stop along the way, don’t talk to strangers”
Flashback
When an author refers back to something that already took place in the story
Thought back to what mom told her “don’t talk to strangers”
