Figurative Language

Question 1

• Consists of comparing two things using the like or as.
• Uses a word or phrase such as “as” or “like” to compare seemingly unlike things or ideas.
• Is directly expressed comparison between two dissimilar objects by means of the word
  like, as, or as if.

Answer 1

Simile

Question 2

• gives an implied, not expressed, comparison to two unlike objects.
• Uses direct comparison of two unlike things or ideas.
• implies comparison instead of a direct statement and that equates two seemingly unlike things or ideas.

Answer 2

Metaphor

Question 3

• Gives human traits to inanimate objects or ideas.
• is giving human attributes/characteristics to inanimate objects, an animal, force of nature, or an idea.
• gives an inanimate object or an abstract idea a human attribute or considers it a live being.

Answer 3

Personification

Question 4

• says the opposite of what is meant.
• is a contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.
• method of humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of what is meant.

Answer 4

Irony

Question 5

• refers to any literary, biblical, historical, mythological, scientific, character or place.
• is a reference in a work of literature to a character, a place, or a situation from history, literature, the Bible, mythology, scientific event, character or place.

Answer 5

Allusion

Question 6

• uses a phrase or statement that on surface seems contradictor, but makes some kind of emotional sense.
• is a phrase or statement that seems to be impossible or contradictory but is nevertheless true, literally or figuratively.

Answer 6

Paradox

Question 7

• You exaggerate for emphasis, humorous or serious.
• is an exaggeration used to express strong emotion, to make a point, or to evoke humor.
• exaggeration for effect and not to deceive or to be taken literally.

Answer 7

Hyperbole

Question 8

• You put (a) the part for the whole, (b) the whole for the part, (c) the species for the genus, (d) the genes for the species, (e) the material for the object it constitute.
• uses a part to represent the whole.
• is the naming of parts to suggest the whole.

Answer 8

Synecdoche

Question 9

• “a turning away” “you turn away” from your audience to address someone new – God, the angels, the dead, or anyone no present.
• is a direct address to someone absent, dead, or inanimate.
• is an address to an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is absent/long dead.
• is an address to the absent as if were present or to somebody dead as if he were alive or to inanimate things as if they were animated.

Answer 9

Apostrophe

Question 10

• “Pointed stupidity” You emphasize your point by the irony of an apparent contradiction or inconsistency.
• puts together in one statement two contradictory terms.
• is putting together two opposite ideas in one statement.

Answer 10

Oxymoron

Question 11

• You substitute an associated item for the thing itself.
• substitutes a word that closely relates to a person or a thing.
• a name of one thing used in place of another suggested or associated with it. It consists in giving idea that is so closely associated with another.
• is the use of one word to stand for a related term or replacement or word that relates to the thing or person to be named for the name itself.

Answer 11

Metonymy