Sagot :
Answer:
irony
Explanation:
a figure of speech is a word of phrase the possesses a separate meaning from its literal definition
Answer:
1.A child runs away from someone throwing a water balloon at him and falls into the pool. This is ironic because the child ends up wetter than he would have been, thwarting his expectations of what would happen when he ran away from the water balloon. The cobbler's children have no shoes.
2.I will die if she asks me to dance. She is as big as an elephant! I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. I have told you a million times not to lie!
3.The sun smiled down on us.” 'The story jumped off the page.” “The light danced on the surface of the water.”
4.A proverb is a short sentence that people often quote, which gives advice or tells you something about life. For example, `A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. '
5.For example, if you say you're feeling “under the weather,” you don't literally mean that you're standing underneath the rain. “Under the weather” is an idiom that is universally understood to mean sick or ill.
6.Here are a few examples of apostrophe used as a figure of speech. “O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”