Fig. Lang. 1
"Free at last
Free at last
Free at last"
Repetition
Click, snap, boom
Onomatopoeia
He ran as fast as a cheetah
Simile
The class was a zoo
Metaphor
She sells seashells by the seashore
Alliteration
A metaphor threaded through an entire story
Allegory
I waited in line for a million years
Hyperbole
The marigolds represented hope, so the marigolds are an example of...
Symbolism
Once in a blue moon
Burning bridges
The ball is in your court
Idiom
A metaphor that stretches across several paragraphs
Extended metaphor
Hungry mouths to feed
Synecdoche
Spiced rice on a kite
Assonance
Back, sick, rock
Consonance
The crown is in agreement with the people
Metonymy
Saying "Thank you" to your guardian angel (who is not physically present)
Apostrophe
After totaling her car, she told her dad it was a minor scratch
Meiosis
Clearly confused
oxymoron
Kick the bucket
Euphemism
Speech is silver, silence is golden
Antithesis
Less is more
Paradox
Differentiate between anthropomorphism and personification + example
Anthropomorphism is literal (Disney movie), personification is figurative.
Differentiate between an oxymoron and antithesis + example
An oxymoron is a phrase made of two opposing words. Antithesis is a statement with two contrasting ideas and uses parallel sentence structure.
Differentiate between dramatic, verbal, and situational irony + examples
Dramatic is when the audience has information that the characters in the story don't have.
Verbal: Narrator says something different from what they mean/ what the situation requires
Situational: Character does something to yield a specific result, but the opposite happens
Differentiate between synecdoche and metonymy + examples
Synecdoche is a part representing a whole
Metonymy is substituting with similar meaning words
Differentiate between hyperbole and meiosis + example
Hyperbole: Exaggeration
Meiosis: Understatement