figurative language review 2

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE REVIEW 2

• “it beats....as it sweeps...... as it cleans”

ASSONANCE

• it beats....as it sweeps...... as it cleans”

•I can smell pizza from a mile away.

HYPERBOLE

•I can smell pizza from a mile away.

•Blood seeped out of the wound like teardrops.

SIMILE

•Blood seeped out of the wound like teardrops.

•Her heels clacked on the hardwood floor.

ONOMATOPOEIA

•Her heels clacked on the hardwood floor.

•“And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain”-Edgar Allen Poe

ALLITERATION

•“And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain”

•Let your eyes drink up that milkshake sky.

METAPHOR

•Let your eyes drink up that milkshake sky.

•a little bird told me

IDIOM

•a little bird told me

•Opposites attract

CLICHÉ

•Opposites attract

•And with those four words her happiness died.

PERSONIFICATION

•And with those four words her happiness died.

• After hours of waiting for the bowling alley to open, we finally got the ball rolling.

PUN

• After hours of waiting for the bowling alley to open, we finally got the ball rolling.