Figures of speech

Toolbox

Figures of speech: metaphor (A is B), simile (A is like B, as... as), personification, repetition, question, exaggeration

Identify the figure of speech

Name the main figure of speech in each line and explain its effect in one sentence.

1. Is the accuser always holy now?
2. Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!
3. common vengeance writes the law
4. as clean as God's fingers
5. the whole world cried spirits, spirits