Figures Of Speech Flashcards
Metaphor
Compare two things
Simile
A comparison of two things by using the word “like” or “as”
Personification
Giving human quality to animals or objects
Hyperbole
An exaggerated statement
Idiom
A expression that doesn’t exactly mean what the words say
Pun
A humorous play on words witch suggests multiple meanings
Example: Where do the pancake live? In a flat!
Attiteration
The use of the same beginning consonant sound in a line or verse
Example:Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Assonance
This the repetition of identical or similar VOWEL SOUNDS in a serious or words phrases and/or syllables
Example:Clap your hands and stamp your hands
Onomatopoeia
A word that imitates the second it represents
Example:splash,pop,bang
Allusion
A reference to a famous person glance or events
Example: Don’t act like a Scrooge
Oxymoron
Contradictory terms appear side by side knows as a compressed paradox
Example: Great Depression , criminal justice
Irony
Irony is the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny
Foreshadowing
When an author mentions or hints at something that’ well happen later in the story
Flashback
When an author refers back to the something that already that took place in the story
