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Kick the bucket
What is a euphemism?
She is as vicious as a lion.
What is a simile?
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
What is alliteration?
"I saw her duck."
What is (lexical) ambiguity?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?
She sells sea shells by the sea shore
What is a tongue twister/alliteration?
The pen is mightier than the sword
What is metonymy?
I’m so sorry, but he didn’t make it.
What is euphemism?
Her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top, with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
What is anthropomorphism/personification?
The nasal whine of power whips a new universe,
Where spouting pillars spoor the evening sky,
What is cacophony?
I must be cruel to be kind.
What is a paradox?
Hot Dog.
You are wiener!
He broke my heart.
What is a metaphor?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
What is anaphora?
''Take care of my son!''
''Don't worry ma'am, he's in good hands.''
What is metaphor?
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
What is parallelism?
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields...".
What is anaphora?
‘It was-simply amazing,’ she repeated abstractedly. ‘But I swore I wouldn’t tell it and here I am tantalizing you.’ She yawned gracefully in my face. ‘Please come and see me . . . Phone book . . . Under the name of Mrs. Sigourney Howard . . . My aunt . . .’ She was hurrying off as she talked-her brown hand waved a jaunty salute as she melted into her party at the door.
What is ellipses?
Laughter is the best medicine.
What is a metaphor?
Now there's just no chance, for you and me, there'll never be, And don't it make you sad about it, Cry me a river, Cry me a river.
What is a hyperbole?
Act naturally.
What is an oxymoron?
"the blanket was coarse against her sunburnt skin"
What is imagery?
"They looked at hundreds of houses, they climbed thousands of stairs, they inspected innumerable kitchens"
What is an enumeration?
The Springfield firestation has burnt down.
What is irony?