Figurative Language

Question 1

Parallelism

Answer 1

Writing which words or phrases are similar in structure and echoing one another

Question 2

Simile

Answer 2

Comparison of two unlike things using like or as

Question 3

Metaphor

Answer 3

Staying one object is another

Question 4

Personification

Answer 4

Giving non human things human attributes

Question 5

Hyperbole

Answer 5

An extreme exaggeration to prove a point

Question 6

Understatement

Answer 6

Statement expressed with restraint representing something as less important than it really is

Question 7

Irony

Answer 7

Contradiction between what is expected and what happens

Question 8

Allusion

Answer 8

Implied or indirect reference to something historically, mythically, religiously, or literally popular, like a well known story

Question 9

Anaphora

Answer 9

Type of parallelism, the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of consecutive phrases or clauses

Question 10

Epistrophe

Answer 10

Opposite of an anaphora, the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses