Figures of speech- 21

21-Figures of speech

1. Simile

As brave as a lion.

Like a fish out of water.

2. Metaphor

Time is a thief.

The world's a stage.

3. Personification

The wind whispered through the trees.

The sun smiled down on us.

4. Hyperbole

I've told you a million times!

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

5. Onomatopoeia

The bees buzzed in the garden.

The door creaked open.

6. Alliteration

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

7. Assonance

The light of the fire is a sight.

Hear the mellow wedding bells.

8. Oxymoron

Bittersweet memories.

Jumbo shrimp.

9. Paradox

Less is more..

This is the beginning of the end.

10. Irony

A fire station burns down.

The lifeguard drowned.

11. Pun

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

I'm reading a book on anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down..

12. Euphemism

He passed away (instead of died).

She's between jobs (instead of unemployed).

13. Synecdoche

All hands on deck!

The crown will decide your fate.

14. Metonymy

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Hollywood is obsessed with remakes.

15. Litotes

Not bad at all.

He's no fool.

16. Anaphora

I came, I saw, I conquered.

17. Epiphora (or Epistrophe)

I want pizza, he wants pizza, we all want pizza.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people.

18. Chiasmus

Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.

You forget what you want to remember and remember what you want to forget.

19. Antithesis

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Speech is silver, but silence is gold.

20. Apostrophe

O Death, where is thy sting?

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are.

21. Allusion

He's a real Romeo with the ladies.

She opened Pandora's box.