Parts of Speech Review

Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Personification
Idiom
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia

The following are words you *need* to review for the exam!

Simile - a figure of speech comparing two things that are not normally put together using the words like and as. Her hair was yellow like gold. She was as light as a feather. He ran like the wind. The kitten was as small as my fist. Her hair was as soft as silk.

Metaphor - a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “all the world’s a stage” “the streets are paved with gold” “The road was a ribbon of moonlight.”

Alliteration – Words in a sentence all starting with the same sound, for example, Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers. She sells sea shells by the seashore.

Personification - When a writer gives human traits to an inanimate object. Such as the teapot and teacup and clock in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. This also applies to animals since they do not speak and have the same characteristics as humans.

Hyperbole - an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.” More examples are These books weigh a ton. (These books are heavy.)
I could sleep for a year. (I could sleep for a long time.)
He must have jumped a mile into the air. (He jumped very high into the air.)
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse. (I'm so hungry, I could eat a lot.)
I'm doing like 15 trillion things right now. (I'm busy.)

Oxymoron - a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.” Long shorts, jumbo shrimp, hurry up and wait.

Idiom - an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics. For example, kick the bucket means a person died and I could eat a horse, means I am hungry. My mouth is dry like a desert. That means my mouth is dry.

Onomatopoeia - the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent, a word so formed, rhetoric. the use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical effect.
Examples: tick tock, ring ring, snooze, bark, meow, moo, drip, choo choo.