Figures Of Speech Flashcards

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8. Alliteration is a figure of speech that relies on the repetition of similar sounds at the end of words.

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5. His voice was as smooth as velvet, but his words cut like a knife.

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2. He’s not just talented; he’s the Michael Jordan of basketball in our town.

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4. The pen is mightier than the sword.

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1. The sun smiled down on the children playing in the park.

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7. Metonymy involves using a part of something to represent the whole.

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9. Personification is giving human characteristics to animals, objects, or abstract ideas.

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6. Hyperbole is used to describe situations in a realistic and understated manner.

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3. The buzzing bees bumbled busily by the blooming bushes.

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10. Synecdoche and Metonymy are completely unrelated figures of speech.

Figures Of Speech