TASK# 2: 10 FIGURES OF SPEECH

 TASK# 2 (JUNE 22, 2021)

10 Figures of Speech, with Samples and Illustrations

•  SIMILE- 1. You eat like a pig.
  
                   2. Her skin is white as snow .

              

• METAPHOR- 1. She has a heart of a lion.
  

                              2. From the bottom of your heart.

            

• HYPERBOLE- 1. I got thousand  things to do today.
  

                                2. She cried so long that she made a lake.

• OXYMORON- 1. Pretty ugly. 
  
  
  

                                2. Sweet sorrow.

         

• PERSONIFICATION- 1. The moon was resting in the midnight sky. 
  

                                            2. The leaves danced their way through the lawn.

          

• ALLUSION- 1. She fell for him, knowing well that he is nothing less than a Casanova.
  

                             2. Chocolate was her Achilles' heel.

         

• IDIOM- 1. Saved by the bell.
  

                     2. Cool as a cucumber.

     

• ASSONANCE- 1. That cat had snack.
  

                                2. The cat ran after the alligator, past the pastry shop and the alleyway.

           

• ONOMATOPOEIA- 1. Bang!
  

                                        2. Pow!

             

• ALLITERATION- 1. She sells seashells by the seashore.
  

                                     2. A fancy fox filing fan mail.