List and explain ten figures of speech and give two example?

Answer 1

1. They're as thick as thieves- they're the best of friends
2. There's no use crying over spilt milk- you shouldn't cry over little things and what's done is done. You can't change that.
3. He was trying to score some brownie points- he was trying to get on someone's good side.
4. It was like a sitting duck- it was like an easy target.
5. It was raining cats and dogs- it was raining really heavily.
6. Birds of a feather flock together- people usually are with the people that are the same as them.
7. Too many cooks will spoil the broth- sometimes it isn't good to have alot of people helping. It might ruin what you're at.
8. Many hands make light work- if you get help from someone work gets done quicker.
9. To turn a blind eye- to ignore something.
10. Let sleeping dogs lie- don't disturb anything if you don't have anything to do with it. Just leave it the way it is.

Answer 2

Common figures of speech include alliteration, anaphora, antithesis, antimetabole, paradox, personification, pun, simile, metonymy, and hyperbole. An example of a simile is the statement; the sun is yellow like a banana. An example of alliteration is, the lilies look lovely late in the day.

Answer 3

1. Simile: comparing two things using "like" or "as" (e.g., "He is as brave as a lion").
2. Metaphor: implying a comparison between two unrelated things (e.g., "Her voice is music to my ears").
3. Personification: giving human characteristics to non-human things (e.g., "The stars danced in the night sky").
4. Hyperbole: exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally (e.g., "I've told you a million times").
5. Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words (e.g., "Sally sells seashells by the seashore").
6. Onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds (e.g., "The thunder rumbled loudly").
7. Oxymoron: a figure of speech combining contradictory terms (e.g., "bittersweet").
8. Irony: expressing the opposite of what is expected (e.g., "The fire station burned down").
9. Pun: a play on words that are either identical or similar in sound but have different meanings (e.g., "I'm reading a book on anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down").
10. Idiom: a phrase that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning (e.g., "Break a leg" means good luck).

Answer 4

We have no idea which of the hundreds if not thousands of figures of speech you and/or your teacher consider to be "the nine."

Answer 5

And saved some part of a day I had saved

Answer 6

Figure of speech with 10example