Figurative Language Resource Page

Question 1

repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a phrase. (Robbie saw rabbits resting by roses.)

Answer 1

alliteration

Question 2

an exaggeration. (that building can touch the clouds.)

Answer 2

hyperbole

Question 3

an expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in kick the bucket or under the weather.

Answer 3

idiom

Question 4

the opposite of what is meant

Answer 4

irony

Question 5

a comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity between the two items. (love is a rose)

Answer 5

metaphor

Question 6

words that sound like what they are. (POP! BAM! Slosh)

Answer 6

onomatopoeia

Question 7

making an inanimate object or animal act like a person.

Answer 7

personification

Question 8

a word or words, which are formed or sounded alike, but have different meaning; to have more than one possible meaning. (using that pencil is pointless)

Answer 8

pun

Question 9

a comparison using “like” or “as” (she sings like an angel)

Answer 9

simile

Question 10

a speaker says the opposite of what they really mean.

Answer 10

verbal irony

Question 11

when what is expected to happen does not take place, instead the opposite action or effect occurs.

Answer 11

situational irony

Question 12

the audience or readers know something that the characters do not about events.

Answer 12

dramatic irony