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Metaphor: something is compared to something else without using the words "like" or "as" to make it obvious it is a comparison. "There was a sea of people at the concert": here a crowd is compared to a sea.
Simile: something is compared to something else directly using words like "like" or "as". "He walked into the party like he was walking onto a yacht."
Personification: talking about something inanimate as if it were a person. "The car made a real effort to get up that hill in third gear."
Synechdoche: where you use part of something to represent the whole thing. "We could sure use a hand over here."
Metonymy: where you use something associated with something else to represent it. "Car number 3 took the checkered flag."
Oxymoron: two opposing concepts are jammed together "Two more hours of boring excitement followed."
Alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds especially at the start of words. "Bert Brydenhart bulked big in Painted Rock."
Zeugma: multiple objects of the same preposition which use the preposition in different senses. "She left in a rage and a taxi." "He hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar and the lamps."
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 14y agoTwo examples of figures of speech would be overstatement (hyberbole) and understatement (litotes).
I wish you hadn't eaten that last biscuit. I feel so hungry now I shall probably starve to death.
When he caught his girlfriend making out with Joe in the pool-hall, it wasn't the best thing that had happened to him all week.
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∙ 14y agoThere are many hundreds of figures of speech, and no two educators will precisely agree on the full list (or the best examples and definitions).
Read the linked article to start with. If you need further information, there are many style manuals which will describe figures of speech which exist, and invent ones which don't.
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∙ 9y agoA figure of speech is a phrase said in a different way than it's actual meaning. "Butterflies in the stomach" means that one is nervous, "It cost a billion dollars" means something is expensive, and "Like peas in a pod" means that two people or things are very close.
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∙ 9y agoThere are many different kinds of figures of speech. One figure of speech is break a leg meaning do well.
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∙ 11y agoA figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common
example life is a .... jorney dance a dream
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As alike as two peas in a pod is an example of what figure of speech?
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Palindrome
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As alike as two peas in a pod is an example of what figure of speech?
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example of apostrope in figure of speech?
Dessert you stressed is an example of what figure of speech?
Palindrome
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kambing
Example of metaphor figure of speech?
her home was a prison.
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simile
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The word boom is an example of what type of figure of speech?
Onomatopoeia
