Figurative language

Question 1

the repetition of an initial consonant sound.

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

(O)nce upon a midnight dreary (w)hile I pondered (w)eak and (w)eary

Answer 2

Alliteration

Question 3

identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words

Answer 3

Assonance

Question 4

Reese’s Pieces

Answer 4

Assonance

Question 5

The repetition of consonant sounds ( not initial sounds) - in the middle or at the end of words

Answer 5

Consonance

Question 6

A House is not a Home Without the Pitter Patter of Kitty Feet

Answer 6

Consonance

Question 7

An exaggerated statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect

Answer 7

Hyperbole

Question 8

I’m so hungry I could eat a horse

Answer 8

Hyperbole

Question 9

A direct comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common

Answer 9

Metaphor

Question 10

There are plenty of fish in the sea

Answer 10

Metaphor

Question 11

The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to

Answer 11

Onomatopoeia

Question 12

BANG

Answer 12

Onomatopoeia

Question 13

A figure in speech in which opposite or contradictory terms appear side by side

Answer 13

Oxymoron

Question 14

bittersweet, same difference

Answer 14

Oxymoron

Question 15

A figure of speech in which an inadement object or abstraction has human qualities or attributes

Answer 15

Personification

Question 16

the sun smiled down on us, the story jumped out of the page

Answer 16

Personification

Question 17

A play of words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words

Answer 17

Pun

Question 18

A salt with a deadly weapon

Answer 18

Pun

Question 19

A Stated comparison using “like” or “as” between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common

Answer 19

Simile

Question 20

As fast as a cheetah

Answer 20

Simile

Question 21

When words are used to stimulate one or more of the five senses

Answer 21

Imagery

Question 22

the roaring thunder frightened the little boy

Answer 22

Imagery

Question 23

A thing that stand or represents something else

Answer 23

symbolism

Question 24

black for evil, white for purity

Answer 24

symbolism

Question 25

When a part of something represents the whole thing

Answer 25

Synecdoche

Question 26

“Friends, Romans, countryman: lend me your ears”
Ears represent the whole person listening

Answer 26

Synecdoche