Memory Game Simile, Metaphor, EpithetOnline version Match the names of stylistic devices with the contexts where they are used. by Olga Leon SIMILE When I go to sleep at night, I think of your sweet smile. I heard that heart-burning sigh and felt her sorrow. COMPOUND EPITHET Black is the color of my true love's hair. PHRASE EPITHET PERSONIFICATION STRING EPITHET TRADITIONAL EPITHET METAPHOR “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” EXTENDED METAPHOR In England once there lived a big and wonderfully clever pig. There was none of the old-fashioned Five-Four-Three-Two-One-Zero business, so tough on the human nervous system. REVERSED EPITHET Laughter is the best medicine. You're a scolding, unjust, abusive, aggravating, bad old creature. I like onions, but they don’t like me. SENTENCE EPITHET FIXED EPITHET She gave Mrs. Smith a you-know-how-men-are look. Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. TWO-STEP EPITHET It was opened by a small barrel of a woman, her fat aims shiny with suds.
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