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Define Me!
Define Me! Part 2
What Am I?
What Am I? Part 2
100
extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
100

a figure of speech that makes a comparison using the word like or as

simile

100

His words cut deeper than a knife.

Metaphor - comparing words to knife

100
I am dying of embarrassment.
hyperbole
200
giving human qualities to non-living thing
personification
200

a joke that comes from a play on multiple meanings of a word

Pun

200
This place is like a Garden of Eden. What type of figurative language is used, and what does it mean?
Allusion- Garden of Eden The place is very beautiful.
200
The lion spit out the clown because he tasted funny.
pun
300

refers to a word that phonetically mimics or resembles the sound it describes

onomatopoeia 

300

reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work or art

allusion

300

A fire station burns down. 

situational irony 

300
Her cheeks are red like a rose.
Simile
400

the use of images/signs to represent ideas or qualities

Symbolism

400

a character thinks one way, but the audience knows something opposite

Dramatic Irony 

400

“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as naught; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.”

Apostrophe 

400
She is awfully pretty.
oxymoron
500
two opposite words are used together, such as "freezer burn"
oxymoron
500

he substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one

Euphemism 

500

Wow, that was a piece of cake! 

idiom 

500

You are becoming a little thin on top (bald)

Euphemism