Figurative Language Quiz Words

Question 0

Alliteration

Answer 0

Repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (she sells sea shells)

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

Using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art

Question 3

Analogy

Answer 3

Similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them

Question 4

Extended Metaphor

Answer 4

Metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work

Question 5

Faulty Analogy

Answer 5

Fallacy that occurs when an analogy compares two things or the relationship between them

Question 6

Figurative Language

Answer 6

Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid

Question 7

Figure of Speech

Answer 7

Device used to produce figurative language (includes apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement)

Question 8

Hyperbole

Answer 8

Deliberate overstatement or exaggeration

Question 9

Metaphor

Answer 9

Comparison of two unlikely things

Question 10

Metonymy

Answer 10

Name of one subject is substituted for that of another closely associated with it

Question 11

Oxymoron

Answer 11

Figure of speech where the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox (ex.: jumbo shrimp)

Question 12

Paradox

Answer 12

A statement that appears to be self contradictory (ex.: “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”)

Question 13

Personification

Answer 13

Figure of speech where the author gives inanimate objects human characteristics or emotions

Question 14

Synesthesia

Answer 14

When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another (ex.: taste the pain)

Question 15

Zeugma

Answer 15

Figure of speech in which an adjective of verb is used with two nouns but is appropriate to only one of them or has a different sense with each, as in “during the race he broke his record and his leg”