Figures of Speech
Analogies
100
Raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom?
100
study : student - teach :
What is teacher?
200
Ate like a pig.
What is a simile?
200
eat : - run : ran
What is ate?
300
"The cool drop of rain, the smell of damp flowers in the air, and the sound of drops upon the roof.
What is imagery?
300
: little - more : less
What is much?
400
The chair groaned when Mr. Hall sat down.
What is personification?
400
cancel : never - postpone :
What is later?
500
The sun was a furnace, burning everything in sight.
What is a metaphor?
500
century : hundred - millennium :
What is thousand?
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