What Subject is the Following
“Wax on. Wax off.” is an example of?
Repetition
The dog is a mutt. (The dog is inferior to a purebred dog.) is an example of?
Connotation
She was cold. (She was cold in temperature.)
Denotation
Only choice is an example of?
Oxymoron
I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
“In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones and wooden sticks of lollipops.” — Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Imagery
“Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin.” — The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Personification
The ships were golden and huge as leviathans, their rails carved from ivory and horn. They were towed by grinning dolphins or else crewed by fifty black-haired nereids, faces silver as moonlight.”
Simile
“Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. All day long he hears: Click, clack, moo. Click, clack, moo. Clickety, clack, moo.”
Onomatopoeia
“Wishes are thorns, he told himself sharply. They do us no good, just stick into our skin and hurt us.”
Metaphor
tough talk
Alliteration
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
Repetition
Terribly good
Oxymoron
rocky road
Alliteration
It is raining cats and dogs. (Cats and dogs are falling out of the sky.)
Denotation