English (figurative language)

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

A comparison between two things using the words “like” or “as”

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

A comparison between two things WITHOUT using “like” or “as” – One thing IS the other thing. May be implied.

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

Giving inanimate objects (nonliving) or animals human characteristics.

Question 4

Anthropomorphism

Answer 4

Giving human characteristics or speech to animals.

Question 5

Onomatopoeia

Answer 5

A word that is also the sound effect it makes; also animal sounds.

Question 6

Alitteration

Answer 6

The repetition of the beginning sound in a sentence or poem.

Question 7

Assonance

Answer 7

Repeated vowel sounds in successive words.

Question 8

Idiom

Answer 8

A widely used phrase or saying not meant to be taken literally; culturally understood.

Question 9

Allusion

Answer 9

Referring to an individual, character, historic figure/event, art, Biblical reference, movies, or literature.

Question 10

Hyperbole

Answer 10

An extreme exaggeration

Question 11

Oxymoron

Answer 11

When two contradictory or opposite words are juxtaposed.

Question 12

Synecdoche

Answer 12

When the part represents the whole or the whole represents the part.

Question 13

Antithesis

Answer 13

Pairing exact opposite or contrasting ideas using parallel grammatical structure.

Question 14

Euphemism

Answer 14

A polite or nice way to say something not so nice.

Question 15

Repetition

Answer 15

Repeating words or phrases for emphasis.

Question 16

Anaphora

Answer 16

When the first word or series of words in a phrase, sentence, or clause is repeated for emphasis.

Question 17

Epistrophe

Answer 17

When the last word or words are repeated in a set of phrases, sentences or clauses. (The opposite of anaphora.)

Question 18

Sympolce

Answer 18

A combination of anaphora and epistrophe.

Question 19

Symbol

Answer 19

An object, person, situation, or action that has a literal meaning but also stands for something else.

Question 20

Irony

Answer 20

A literary device in which a word or event means something contradictory to its actual meaning.

Question 21

Verbal Irony

Answer 21

When what a speaker says is the exact opposite of what he means.

Question 22

Situational Irony

Answer 22

When the opposite of what is expected to happen occurs.

Question 23

Dramatic Irony

Answer 23

When the audience or reader knows something, but the character does not.

Question 24

Pun

Answer 24

A play on words–uses words with similar or the same sounds, but different meanings.