Figures of Speech

1. Figures of Speech

2. Personification Applying human traits to animals and things or ideas.

3. Personification

4. Similes Comparison of characteristics of two different things using likeoras. The stock market is like a roller coaster ride--up and down.

5. Simile

6. Metaphors My best friend was a backstabber. He told my girl friend I had been fired from my job.

7. Metaphor

8. Metaphor It’s a land of milk and honey.

9. Metaphor

10. Metaphor No man is an island.

11. Alliteration A repetition of initial consonant sounds.

13. Alliteration The sign reads: Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

14. Alliteration If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

15. Hyperbole Gross exaggeration

16. Your Text Here Hyperbole

17. Onomatopoeia Words written like the sound they make.

18. Onomatopoeia

19. Onomatopoeia

20. Idioms Words used that have a different meaning than the literal meaning. “ You can’t tell a book by its cover.” Meaning: You can’t know a person by their looks alone.

21. Idioms “live out of a suitcase” meaning traveling all the time.

22. “name dropper” Someone who wants others to know they associate with important or famous people.

23. Idioms “had a ball” meaning had a good time

24. Idioms “I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.” Meaning: I’ll deal with that when the time comes. “Don’t burn your bridges.” Meaning: Don’t alienate people that can help you, or don’t cut off your connections to opportunities.

25. Idioms “man on the street” meaning the ordinary or average man

26. Idioms “highway robbery” meaning charging too much i.e. Some credit card interest rates are highway robbery.

27. Idioms Example: I was late because I was caught in a traffic jam.