Identify the following figures of speech: (a) A cold stranger entered touching one person here and another there with his cold icy fingers. The Doctors called him Mr. Pneumonia. (b) All the politicians agree to disagree.
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(a) A cold stranger entered touching one person here and another there with his cold icy fingers. The Doctors called him Mr. Pneumonia.
The figure of speech used in this sentence is Personification. Pneumonia has been personified as a cold stranger.
(b) All the politicians agree to disagree.
The figure of speech used in sentence (b) is oxymoron
Explanation:
Personification is the technique or practice of representing objects, qualities, etc. as humans, in art and literature.
Oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two words that mean opposite of each other for example, cold fire, deafening silence.
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