Figure Of Speech

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

used to address someone who is absent or already dead.

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse.

Question 4

euphemism

Answer 4

word or phrase that softens an uncomfortable topic.
(Make love instead of sex)

Question 5

Hyperbole

Answer 5

uses an exaggerated or extravagant statement to create a strong emotional response.
(“Im Hungry I might eat you)

Question 6

Irony

Answer 6

contradiction between words and expressions.
(“How nice!” she said when I told her I had to work all weekend)

Question 7

Metaphor

Answer 7

describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison
(Your eyes is like a diamond)

Question 8

Metonomy

Answer 8

the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original
(Crown-King)

Question 9

Onomatopoeia

Answer 9

the usage of words to describe any sound that is created by a living being, a non-living object or entity
(Meow-meow)

Question 10

Oxymoron

Answer 10

combines contradictory words with opposing meanings
(Organized chaos)

Question 11

Personification

Answer 11

used to attribute human characteristics to something that is not human
(Wind is blowing)

Question 12

Rhetorical question

Answer 12

question is asked for a reason other than to get an answer—most commonly, it’s asked to make a persuasive point.
(“Would it kill you to stop chewing your food with your mouth open?” )

Question 13

Simile

Answer 13

Comparison that use like and as

Question 14

Synecdoche

Answer 14

Part is use to represent as whole
(ABC’s for alphabet)

Question 15

Anaphora

Answer 15

Repetition of same word or phrase
(Unfortunately, I was in wrong place at wrong time)

Question 16

Chiasmus

Answer 16

A verbal pattern in which second half of expression isa balanced against first but with parts reverse
(People should live to eat not to eat to live

Question 17

Litotes

Answer 17

Understatement which affirmative expressed by negating its opposite
(A million dollars is no small chunk of change)