What does the idiom in this text suggest?
"Speak of the devil!" Joy declared when Kenneth strolled into the room.
Joy didn't trust Kenneth. Joy had just been speaking about Kenneth.
Figures of speech are words or phrases that use language in a nonliteral or unusual way. They can make writing more expressive.
An idiom is an expression that cannot be understood literally. Its meaning must be learned.
The assignment was a piece of cake.
The text uses an idiom, an expression that cannot be understood literally.
The idiom speak of the devil suggests that Joy had just been speaking about Kenneth. People say this when the person they've just been speaking about coincidentally arrives, as if summoned.