Figures of Speech are used commonly in English, but mainly in poems. Here are the figures of speech with a test below (more will be added over time).
Phonic Devices
- Alliteration
- Repetition of consonant sound
- In cricket Connor corrupted Campbell
- Repetition of consonant sound
- Onomatopoeia
- A word that imitates real life sounds
- Shwoosh, bang, pop
- A word that imitates real life sounds
- Assonance
- Repetition of a vowel sound
- Ethan eats everything
- Repetition of a vowel sound
Comparisons
- Simile
- A comparison using like or as
- He is as strong as a truck
- A comparison using like or as
- Metaphor
- A comparison without the use of like or as
- He is a truck
- A comparison without the use of like or as
- Personification
- Giving inanimate object human characteristics
- The wind howled during the storm
- Giving inanimate object human characteristics
- Euphemism
- To make something seem better than it really is
- He passed away instead of he died
- To make something seem better than it really is
- Hyperbole
- An over exaggeration
- He throws the ball at the speed of light
- An over exaggeration
- Irony
- When the opposite of what you expect happens
- He died in the living room
- When the opposite of what you expect happens
- Pun
- A play on words
- I bet the butcher the other day that he couldn’t reach the meat that was on the top shelf. He refused to take the bet, saying that the steaks were too high.
- A play on words
- Oxymoron
- Placing two opposite meaning words next to each other
- He is an awfully good batsman
- Placing two opposite meaning words next to each other
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