FIGURES OF SPEECH

[Roselin]

Can I say the following sentences? Did I use the figures of speech correctly? Please tell.

I am to describe a picture. The picture is of a crowded market place

1)What a crowded market place!
2) There are as many people as in a fair. ( similie)
3) The people are busy like a bee. ( metaphor)
4) The fruits look so fresh, they seem to have just taken a bath.( personification)
5) There must be thousands of fruits over there.( hyperbole)
6)Oh no, tip! tip!, rain drops fall, the market place is totally empty now! (onomatopoeia)

 

[konungursvia]

All correct, but we spell 2 "simile". 1 is an interjection.

 

[kiwi man]

NOT A TEACHER!

Something does not sound right about the people and a bee. How could a plural be compared to a singular? It seems wrong to me.

If I were you, I would use The people are busy like bees.

I hope it helps.

 

[freezeframe]

I disagree with it being all correct. 3 is not a metaphor. You should re-check the definition of a metaphor.

 

[Raymott]

Can I say the following sentences? Did I use the figures of speech correctly? Please tell.

I am to describe a picture. The picture is of a crowded market place

1)What a crowded market place!
2) There are as many people as in a fair. ( similie)
3) The people are busy like a bee. ( metaphor)
4) The fruits look so fresh, they seem to have just taken a bath.( personification)
5) There must be thousands of fruits over there.( hyperbole)
6)Oh no, tip! tip!, rain drops fall, the market place is totally empty now! (onomatopoeia)

3) is not a metaphor. It's a simile. Similes use words like 'as' and 'like'. Metaphors say that one thing is another.
"The people are bees buzzing around the stalls of vegetables."
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." (Shakespeare)

Are you sure your task was to describe a picture of a marketplace? Why would you make a list of figurative tropes in response to a descriptive task? (Onomatopoeias don't occur in pictures; there aren't thousands of fruits in the picture; you can't assess how busy the people are.)

 

[Roselin]

The people are puppets. ( How about this one? Does it go with the context I mentioned above?)

 

[Roselin]

3) is not a metaphor. It's a simile. Similes use words like 'as' and 'like'. Metaphors say that one thing is another.
"The people are bees buzzing around the stalls of vegetables."
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." (Shakespeare)

Are you sure your task was to describe a picture of a marketplace? Why would you make a list of figurative tropes in response to a descriptive task? (Onomatopoeias don't occur in pictures; there aren't thousands of fruits in the picture; you can't assess how busy the people are.)

Thanks, Raymott!

 

[freezeframe]

Are you sure your task was to describe a picture of a marketplace? Why would you make a list of figurative tropes in response to a descriptive task? (Onomatopoeias don't occur in pictures; there aren't thousands of fruits in the picture; you can't assess how busy the people are.)

Descriptions can be creative, no?

 

[konungursvia]

I disagree with it being all correct. 3 is not a metaphor. You should re-check the definition of a metaphor.

Yes, you're right, I guess I read through too quickly.

 

[BobK]

... Incidentally, where does 'tip tip' come from? Common onomatopoeic representations of rain are 'drip drip', 'drip drop', 'splish splash' and others. An engine cooling down goes 'tick tick'; but I've never met 'tip tip'

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