Definitions
What is Alliteration?
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is Metaphor?
She is a flower.
What is a Metaphor?
She walks with beauty, and her skin is as white as snow.
What is metaphor and simile?
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
What is a Simile?
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is Personification?
Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off?
He’s all right now.
What is a Pun?
Boom! This was all they heard as the tower of books fell like lighting.
What is hyperbole and onomatopoeia?
What is Onomatopoeia?
a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
What is a Paradox?
Sizzle
What is Onomatopoeia?
Two wide windmills are standing in a wind farm. One asks, “What’s your favorite kind of music?” The other says, “I’m a big metal fan.”
What is puns and alliteration?
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
What is Euphemism?
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
She sells seashells by the sea-shore.
What is Alliteration?
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
What is Oxymoron?
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a Hyperbole?
kick the bucket
What is Euphemism?
They let me go because I am nobody.
What is paradox and euphemism?