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Question 1

Anaphora

Answer 1

Uses a specific clause at the beginning of each sentence or point to make a statement

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Focuses on The vowel sounds in a phrase repeating them over and over to great effect

Question 3

Hyperbole

Answer 3

An exaggeration

Question 4

Irony

Answer 4

Using a word in its literal sense That debunks what has just been said

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

A comparison between two things without using like or as

Question 6

Simile

Answer 6

Comparison using like or as

Question 7

Metonymy

Answer 7

One word that has a very similar meaning for another word can be used for that word

Question 8

Onomatopoeia

Answer 8

Boom KAPOW

Question 9

Paradox

Answer 9

A figure of speech that completely contradicts itself in the same sentence

Question 10

Personification

Answer 10

Giving an inanimate object human traits

Question 11

Pun

Answer 11

A play on words that uses the different senses of the word and sounds to make a joke

Question 12

Synecdoche

Answer 12

When one thing is meant to represent a whole

Example: ABC’s

Question 13

Understatement

Answer 13

A situation in which the thing discussed is made to seem less important than it really is

Question 14

Antithesis

Answer 14

This is a contradiction the pits to ideas is against each other

Question 15

Euphemism

Answer 15

Words that are used to soften the message

Question 16

Oxymoron

Answer 16

Two words that seem to contradict each other but don’t and are used as humor

Question 17

Alliteration

Answer 17

Involves using words that begin with the same sound