Question

Name and explain the figure of speech in the following line:
“_____ they’re pretty like you”.

Answer 1

Hint: Figure of speech is an intentional deviation from ordinary language or it is a word or phrase that possesses a separate meaning from its literal definition.

Complete answer:
Figures of speech in English are: simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe and etc. are used to convey the meaning other than the literal meaning.
Here, simile figure of speech is used. Simile directly compares two things. Similes differ from metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using words such as ‘like’, ‘as’ or ‘then’. Whereas metaphors create an implicit comparison.
Some examples of similes are:
She is as innocent as an angel, as big as an elephant.
Similes are used in literature to make writing more interesting or vivid or more powerful. In everyday speech, they can be used to convey the meaning of the sentence or the part of the sentence more quickly and efficiently. As many commonly used expressions or idioms are similes.
Here, the figure of speech used is simile. (Here, suppose a son compares his mother to the flower – they’re pretty like you.
“I picked them because they’re pretty like you”.

Note:
Figure of speech is a means of expressing one's thought and emotions by adding intensity to the words used in it. It is a rhetorical way of speaking or telling the uses of words in a distinctive way. Though there is a major difference between metaphor and simile.
Metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. For example: Similes use the words ‘like’ and ‘as’ to compare things (for example: life is like a box of chocolates) where we use the words “like or as” in comparing things similes are used and metaphor directly states a comparison (for example: love is a battlefield, heart of gold) in such comparisons we do not us words “like or as” and this is the major difference between the metaphor and simile.
So in the above sentence simile is used (because for comparing the word ‘like’ is used).