Figuratively Speaking
What type of figurative is used in the statement?
-Allie always ate apples.
Compare two things using like or as
simile
Comparing two things in a way that cant be taken literally.
Idiom
- She was the apple of my eye
Metaphor
a play on words
pun
compare two unlike things without using "like or as"
metaphor
What type of figurative language is used?
-I had to bite my tongue during that debate
Idiom
a word associated with a sound it makes
onomatopoeia
two or more words used together that mean the opposite or can not be taken literally
oxymorn
What type of figurative language is used :
- The sun was dancing in the sky
Personification
an extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
phrase or sentence using repeated beginning letters or sounds
alliteration
What type of figurative language is used?
Go get the dry ice.
Oxymoron
to give something non human a human like quality
personification
slow and steady wins the race