Definitions 1
Comparing two objects without using like or as.
Metaphor
The city where I was born.
Tegucigalpa
Squeak, squeak!
Onomatopoeia
Carl crashed the car.
Alliteration
A word that describes an action in the sentence.
Verb
Placing two contradicting words side to side to create a different meaning.
Oxymoron
These are how many children I have.
2
The firehouse went on fire.
Irony
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get!
Simile
The tense used in the following sentence:
"She was running to class."
Past continuous.
Words designed to hurt.
Sarcasm
This is my official title.
ESL Teacher/Boys' Varsity Soccer Head Coach
The boat's captain yelled, "All hands on deck!"
Synecdoche
And he replied, "Thank you captain obvious!"
Sarcasm
A word that describes the subject in the sentence.
Noun
a conflict or dilemma.
Paradox
This is where I went to high school.
Port Washington (Paul D. Schreiber)
And there he sat to witness the nothing that is...
Paradox
To, too, two; there, their, they're
Homographs
Identify the following sentence:
She had had her number for many years.
Past Perfect
Repetition of the final words of a sentence in consecutive lines.
Anaphora
This is his favorite saying.
"The harder I work, the luckier I get."
"To be or not to be, that is the question!"
Soliloquy
"A train at the top of a hill sniffs a flower before swooping down the other slope. Holsters even spread themselves to receive Panchito's revolvers"
Prosopopoeia
Words that are written the same, sound differently and have a different meaning.
Heteronyms