Figurative Language

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

An implied or indirect reference especially in literature

Question 2

Hyperbole

Answer 2

Deliberate overstatement, exaggeration for effect (“I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”)

Question 3

Imagery

Answer 3

Refers to the way words create or suggest pictures in the readers mind

Exp: What we see, hear, smell, feel, or taste

Question 4

Irony

Answer 4

A figure of speech in which words are used in which a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

A word or phrase in which one kind of object or idea used in place of another to suggest a similarity between them. A metaphor is generally an implicit comparison

Question 6

Oxymoron

Answer 6

Deliberate combination of seemingly contradictory words

Exp: “Jumbo Shrimp” “bittersweet”

Question 7

Personification

Answer 7

Attributing animation to something inanimate (“ a grieving nation”); treating a thing or abstract quality as though it were a person

Question 8

Simile

Answer 8

An explicit comparison( generally using like or as, although sometimes also than or resembles): “her lips are like roses.”

Question 9

Synecdoche

Answer 9

Substituting a part for a whole or a whole for part. “ Fifty sail” for ‘fifty ships”