Therefore, the figure of speech used is Personification.

five ​Definitions and Synonyms

In the above sentence the word ‘five’ is a Numeral Adjective (or Adjective of number). It shows the number of committee members.

noun

There are eight parts of speech in the English language: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The part of speech indicates how the word functions in meaning as well as grammatically within the sentence.

In European languages, figures of speech are generally classified in five major categories: (1) figures of resemblance or relationship (e.g., simile, metaphor, kenning, conceit, parallelism, personification, metonymy, synecdoche, and euphemism); (2) figures of emphasis or understatement (e.g., hyperbole, litotes.

Terms in this set (9)

1. Personafication. Personification; “Person”afication,
2. Assonance. As”son”ance; “song” Words in songs ryhme- “vowel sounds same”
3. Alliteration. All”iteration; the double l’s symbolize two of the same consonants exactly after each other.
4. Metaphor.
5. Hyperbole.
6. Imagery.
7. Simile.
8. onomatopoeia.

Figurative language, also called a figure of speech, is a word or phrase that departs from literal language to express comparison, add emphasis or clarity, or make the writing more interesting with the addition of color or freshness.

A simile is a figure of speech and type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words “like” or “as.” The purpose of a simile is to help describe one thing by comparing it to another thing that is perhaps seemingly unrelated.

20 Common Idiomatic Expressions & Their Meanings

• She was tickled pink by the good news.
• You are hands down the best player on the team.
• He’s been down in the dumps lately.
• I feel sick as a dog.
• My grandma has been under the weather.
• Rise and shine!
• Close, but no cigar.
• I could play outside till the cows come home.