Figurative language

Question 1

ALLITERATION

Answer 1

Consonant sounds repeated at the BEGINNINGS of words
: Peter Piper Picked a Peak of Pickled Peppers. (P)

Question 2

ALLUSION

Answer 2

-From the verb “allude” which means “to refer to”
-A reference to someone or something famous.

• tunnel walled and overlaid With dazzling crystal: we had read Of rare ALADDINS wondrous cave, And to our own his name we gave.

Question 3

ANALOGY

Answer 3

Comparison of two or more unlike things in order to show a similarity in their characteristics

*“Life is like a box of chocolates—you never know what you’re gonna get.”

Question 4

Two types of analogies?

Answer 4

Simile AND Metaphor

Question 5

SIMILIE

Answer 5

Comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

*Friends are like chocolate cake, you can never have too many.
Chocolate cake is like heaven -
always amazing you with each taste or feeling.
Chocolate cake is like life with so many different pieces. Chocolate cake is like happiness, you can never get enough of it.

Question 6

METAPHOR

Answer 6

Comparison of two unlike things where one word is used to designate the other (one is the other)

*A spider is a black dark midnight sky.
Its web is a Ferris wheel.
It has a fat moon body and legs of dangling string.
Its eyes are like little match ends.

Question 7

EXTENDED METAPHOR

Answer 7

Continues for several lines or possibly the entire length of a work… Dont really get but okay!

Question 8

ASSONANCE

Answer 8

-Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line (or lines) of a poem
-Often creates Near Rhyme

*A lEA sailor Even
In a stormY sEA
Drinks dEEp God’s Name
In ecstasY

Question 9

CONSONANCE

Answer 9

Similar to alliteration EXCEPT:
– repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words, not just at the beginning!

*How a luSH-kept pluSH-capped sloe Will, mouthed to fleSH-burst, GuSH!—

Question 10

IDIOM

Answer 10

-It means something other than what it actually says.
-NOT LITERAL

*-Feeling under the weather
-you could have knocked me down with a feather.
-It was like a bolt out of the blue, when I met you.
-an English rose, in the flower of youth;…

Question 11

IMAGERY

Answer 11

Language that provides a sensory experience using sight, sound, smell, touch, taste

Question 12

HYPERBOLE

Answer 12

An intentional exaggeration or overstatement, often used for emphasis

*Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world

Question 13

LITOTE

Answer 13

-Intentional understatement, used for humor or irony
(Example- naming a slow moving person “Speedy”)
“Sarcasm”

Question 14

ONOMATOPOEIA

Answer 14

Words that imitate the sound that they are naming

Question 15

OXYMORON

Answer 15

-Combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox, as in the word bittersweet or the phrase living death

*-And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true…

-I do here make humbly bold to present them with a short account of themselves…

Question 16

PERSONIFICATION

Answer 16

A nonliving thing given human of life-like qualities

Question 17

SYMBOLISM

Answer 17

-The use of a word or object which represents a deeper meaning than the words themselves
-It can be a material object or a written sign used to represent something invisible.

*I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.