definitions
Comparing two different things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
When two contrasting words are put together.
What is an oxymoron?
I am so hungry I could eat 90 pizzas!
What is a hyperbole?
Kapow!
What is - When you are talking about someone and they enter the room?
Uses exaggeration to make a point or create effect. It's when we say something that is intentionally over-the-top and not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
When several words in a phrase or sentence start with the same sound.
What is an alliteration?
His hair is a golden sunset.
What is an allusion?
He was under the weather.
What is - he was sick?
A word that ‘makes’ a sound.
What is an onomatnopoea?
Word play where words or phrases can take on a double meaning.
What is a pun?
The sun gave me a warm hug as I laid on the beach.
What is personification?
The tree danced in the breeze.
What is personification?
I have an ace up my sleeve!
What is - I have a secret trick to deal with this situation?
A saying that isn’t meant to be taken literally and has NOTHING to do with what it says. Idioms are cultural and regional.
Gives human traits, characteristics, or qualities to non-human things or ideas.
I don't trust stairs, they're always up to something.
What is a pun?
Bob and Betty bought a beautiful boat.
What is alliteration?
We just need to break the ice.
What is - we just need to get to know each other?
Using a universally understood historical person, place, or event in order to describe something else.
What is an allusion?
Compares two things without using ‘like’ or ‘as,’ but rather by stating that something IS something else.
What is a metaphor?
Hold your horses!
What is an idiom?
What is a metaphor?
I passed by the skin of my teeth.
What is - I BARELY passed.