Definitions
Examples
What am I?
What do I mean?
Potpouri
100
a comparison of two unlike things using the word "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
100
Jerry jumped into his Jeep and jeered at his friends.
What is alliteration?
100
She's as bright as the sun.
What is a simile?
100
She talked a mile a minute.
What is she talks a lot?
100
hyperbole
What is an extreme exaggeration?
200
a word that imitates the sound of the thing it refers to.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The group gathered around the dancing fire.
What is an personification?
200
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
200
He's a chip off the old block.
What is he's just like his dad!
200
alliteration
What is the repetition of the same sound using the same consonant at the beginning of words?
300
an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
300
The road was a ribbon of highway.
What is metaphor?
300
I could eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole?
300
"Don't be a Scrooge!"
What is "don't be a mean-spirited, miserly person.
300
idiom
What is a phrase or expression having a special meaning that can't be understood from the original meaning of the words?
400
an expression combining terms that contradict each other.
What is an oxymoron?
400
His favorite gum was icy hot spearmint.
What is an oxymoron?
400
Time flies when you're having fun.
What is an idiom?
400
It was a pretty ugly day.
What is the day was a bad/not a good day.
400
allusion
What is an indirect reference to a well known person, place, thing, or event.
500
a phrase or expression that has a special meaning and cannot be understood from the original meaning of its words.
What is an idiom?
500
Chocolate was her Achilles' heel.
What is an allusion?
500
An object used to stand for something else.
What is symbolism?
500
Bill was gone and there was a noticeable absence in the classroom.
What is Bill is such a outgoing student in the classroom that when he is gone, everyone notices.
500
symbolism
What is representing things by using something to stand for something else?
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