A task that's a piece of cake is an easy task.
If something is a piece of cake it's simple and will not be hard to accomplish.
A piece of cake, is to say that something is easy to do. For instance, it is a piece of cake for someone trained in gymnastics to do a somersault.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, a "piece of cake" is "something easily accomplished," e.g., "I had no trouble finding your house -- a piece of cake."
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The idiom is "piece of cake".
It refers to something that is perceived to be very easy or simple, something that is as easy to do as eating a piece of cake.
"Hey, Chuck Norris! Can you break through this flimsy wooden door? My brother is trapped inside!" "Sure I can, that's a piece of cake!"
It means ( its a simple thing)
It means easy.
Example: I did in my math 3+3 that equals 6- it is a piece of cake!
I think your asking two different questions but ii will only answer the one I know. I don't know where it came from but it means that it is really easy. same as easy as pie.
personification
Take one piece at a time
Metaphor
"A piece of cake" "A cakewalk" "No problem" "Easily done" "A pleasure"
Figurative
The term is 'piece of cake.' It means that something is very easy to do. ex. 'That exam today was a piece of cake.'
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are not used for their literal meaning
I turned off the flame on the gas stove.I turned off from my boyfriend's sexual advances.Literal just means that what you read actually happened. Figurative means that it is an idiom or slang, that it didn't actually happen.He kicked the bucket. The literal meaning is that he kicked a bucket. The figurative meaning is that he died.That's a piece of cake. The literal meaning is that it is a slice of cake. The figurative meaning is that it is something easy to do.
"A piece of cake" means something is very simple for someone to do. Example: I found chemistry difficult, but for Kris, it was a piece of cake.
"Piece of cake" is used here as a term meaning the test was very easy for Ahmed.
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Impromptu text is written without much forethought and therefore may employ elements of literal and figurative language. Figurative language could be the use of an expression in the piece and literal language may be facts provided in the piece.
RAF slang of WW2, meaning it's very easy.
A yellow cake is a figurative term for uranium ore.
A piece of cake is simply called (and spelled) "a piece of cake." It may also be called "a serving of cake" or "a slice of cake."
Used a piece of cake for what reason?
The Cake Eaters was created in 2007.
What ever colour you perceive the piece of cake to be.
"A piece of cake" "A cakewalk" "No problem" "Easily done" "A pleasure"