PERSONIFICATION GIVING THE QUALITIES

OF A PERSON TO AN ANIMAL, AN OBJECT,

OR AN IDEA.

Onomatopoeia The use of words

that mimic sounds.

SymbolismSomething that stands for

or suggests something else through a relationship,

association, convenience, or accidental resemblance 

Verbal Ironywords that convey a meaning that is the

opposite of its true/literal meaning.

Situational Irony

An event opposite to that which is actually supposed to occur.

Which is it? Why?

My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.

PERSONIFICATION!

Which is it? Why?

Onomatopoeia

Which is it? Why?

Symbolism

Which is it? Why?

Two animal rights activists were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

IRONY

CRAZY!