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Figurative Quotes
Compared to What?
Sounds Great!
Memory Lane
Picture Perfect
100
The horse is a very stable animal.
What is pun?
100
Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball over the net.
What is metaphor?
100
He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes.
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
The suits are having a serious discussion on strategies to boost their business.
What is metonymy?
100
I got a bad score on my math test.
What is euphemism?
200
Oh great! you just broke my new camera.
What is irony?
200
The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.
What is personification?
200
Milton Mallard mailed a mangled mango.
What is alliteration?
200
The hired hands are busy fixing the potholes on highway 99.
What is synecdoche? Hired hands for workmen
200
Talking when a someone is doing a presentation is really rubbing someone the wrong way .
What is idiom?
300
The food was so hot; my ears are smoking.
What is hyperbole?
300
Be careful when you go out. The sidewalk is as slippery as greased glass.
What is simile?
300
Shelly Sherman shivered in a sheer, short, shirt.
What is alliteration?
300
" Welcome, O life I go to encounter the reality of experience"
What is apostrophe?
300
He is just among the many who lives on the streets.
What is euphemism?
400
My suitcase weighs a ton.
What is hyperbole?
400
Cindy was such a mule. We couldn't get her to change her mind.
What is metaphor?
400
The machine cleans as it beats and cleans.
What is assonance?
400
This place is like a Garden of Eden.
What is allusion? biblical allusion
400
This is the beginning of the end of his journey as a hero.
What is paradox?
500
The difference between a teacher and a conductor is that the conductor minds the train and the teacher trains the mind.
What is pun?
500
Even a child could carry my dog, Dogface, around for hours. He's such a feather.
What is metaphor?
500
Don' just stand and pretend the agony to end.
What is consonance?
500
In a survey, 65 % of women in the United States are breadwinners.
What is synecdoche?
500
A lot of times, you need to be cruel to be kind.
What is paradox?