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Katie Perry had a hit song with the title "Roar" what figurative language term is being exemplified in the songs title?
What is onomatopoeia
Stating that someone is "as cool as a cucumber" is an example of this figurative language term.
What is Simile
The nursery rhyme goes: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are." What type of figurative language is being used here?
What is Apostrophe.
I told you to clean your room a million times!
What is Hyperbole
Plastic Silverware
What is an Oxymoron
"Thanks for the ticket officer, you just made my day."
Verbal Irony
Juliet is "alone" on her balcony when she cries "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" What type of figurative language is being used here?
Elvis uses this type of figurative language when he "You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog"
What is Metaphor
The wind howled my name!
What is personification
This type of figurative language is used when you say "Peter Piper Picked a Pale of Pickled Peppers."
What is: Alliteration
What is Coca-Cola
The Dramatic type of this figurative language is seen when in "Romeo and Juliet" the audience is aware that Juliet isn't really dead-- but Romeo does not and so he kills himself.
What is Dramatic Irony
The band U2 have a song that states: “I can’t live with or without you” which is an example of this figurative language term.
What is Paradox
Lincoln uses the opposite of anaphora when he states “A government of the people, by the people, for the people…”
What is Epistrophe
When someone says "the weather is great today" if it is clearly not.
Litotes or sarcasm
Ready Player One was full of these as it followed an 80s obsessed video game designer.
Allusions
The phrase "less is more" would be considered a...
What is paradox
Name the term associated with the phrase "They were as quiet as a mice"
What is: simile
This is the figurative language device used when Neil Armstrong stated:
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
What is Antithesis
The Ding-Dong of the doorbell is an example of this figurative language term
What is Onomatopoeia
When you say that everything is fine but in reality it is not fine.
What is an Understatement
This type of figurative language is being portrayed in Charles Dickens "A Tale of Two Cities" when he writes:
“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, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way”
What is Antithesis
"This vacuum sucks!" Is an example of this term at work.
What is Pun
What type of Figurative language is being brought to us from flavor-town when Guy Fiere states"Winner Winner Chicken Dinner?"
What is Assonance
The repetition in this speech: "I have a dream" speech, Martin Luther King Jr is exemplifying this figurative language term
What is Epistrophe