Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Figures of Speech
- Simile
- Compares two things that are alike
- LIKE or AS
- "Cute as a button"
- Metaphor
- Compares two unlike things
- Provide clearer description
- "On the wings of wind"
- Alliteration
- Two or more words in a row starting with the same sounds
- "a peck of pickled peppers."
- Assonance
- Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words
- "I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
(Thin Lizzy, "With Love")
- Personification
- giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas
- "Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie."
- Onomatopoeia
- A poetic structure of words to convey how something sounds
- "Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime"
- Hyperbole
- A description that is exaggerated for emphasis
- "I could sleep for a year"