FIGURE OF SPEECH

Question 1

WHAT IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH

Answer 1

-an expression used to make a greater effect on your reader or
listener. It is a creative use of language to generate an effect.

Question 2

WHAT IS A METAPHOR ?

Answer 2

-compares two things, usually by stating that one thing is another.

Question 3

WHAT IS HYPERBOLE?

Answer 3

• when you say something that’s really exaggerated.

Question 4

WHAT IS SIMILE

Answer 4

-when you compare two things by saying one thing is like another thing

Question 5

WHAT IS PERSONIFICATION?

Answer 5

-when you give human qualities or actions to
something that’s not human

Question 6

WHAT IS OXYMORON?

Answer 6

• when two words are put together that have opposite meanings.

Question 7

WHAT IS APOSTROPHE?

Answer 7

-talking to something that can’t talk back, as if it were a
person.

Question 8

WHAT IS ONOMATOPOEIA?

Answer 8

-when a word sounds like the thing it’s describing.

Question 9

WHAT IS ALLITERATION?

Answer 9

-when words in a sentence start with the same sound.

Question 10

WHAT IS IMAGERY?

Answer 10

when authors uses words to create an image or pictures in their readers head.

Question 11

when authors uses words to create an image or pictures in their readers head.

Answer 11

IMAGERY

Question 12

the writer addresses an
absent person, an abstract concept, or an inanimate object directly as if it were present,
alive, and able to respond.

Answer 12

APOSTROPHE

Question 13

when a word sounds like the thing it’s describing.

Answer 13

ONOMATOPOEIA

Question 14

when two words are put together that have opposite meanings.

Answer 14

OXYMORON

Question 15

when you give human qualities or actions to
something that’s not human

Answer 15

PERSONIFICATION

Question 16

when words in a sentence start with the same sound.

Answer 16

ALIITERATION

Question 17

when you say something that’s really exaggerated

Answer 17

HYPERBOLE

Question 18

compares two things, usually by stating that one thing is another.

Answer 18

METAPHOR

Question 19

when you compare two things by saying one thing is like another thing.

Answer 19

SIMILE

Question 20

1.) Mr. Smith drank his tea in oceans.
2.) She is the torch of love, leading Romeo out of the despair that he felt about rosaline
3.) She has set Romeo’s heart on fire
4.) Romeo needs a torch to find his way home in the dark
5.) She is a fire risk because she is wearing a cotton dress

Answer 20

–Hyperbole
–Metaphor
–Metaphor
–Metaphor
–Metaphor

Question 21

6.) Her beauty shines as though she were a burning torch
7.) A gentle summer wind feels like a soft cotton sheet
8.) The horse moved with lighting speed
9.) The mayors voice was a strong weapon
10.) An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Answer 21

–simile
–simile
–metaphor
–metaphor
–alliteration?

Question 22

His smile is as big as the moon

Answer 22

simile

Question 23

time is thief

Answer 23

metaphor

Question 24

the flowers danced in the breeze

Answer 24

personification

Question 25

im so hungry, i could eat a horse

Answer 25

hyperbole

Question 26

silly saly sells seashells by the seashore

Answer 26

alliteration

Question 27

buzz for a bee’s sound or “meow” for a cat’s sound.

Answer 27

onomatopoeia

Question 28

jumbo shrimp

Answer 28

oxymoron

Question 29

Oh Sun, Why do you hide behind the clouds

Answer 29

apostrophe

Question 30

serious vanity

Answer 30

oxymoron

Question 31

give an example of a alliteration figure of speech

Answer 31

answers may vary

Question 32

give an example of a personification figure of speech

Answer 32

answers may Vary

Question 33

give me an example about onomatopoeia

Answer 33

answers may vary

Question 34

give me an example or apostrophe

Answer 34

answers may vary

Question 35

example of hyperbole

Answer 35

answers may vary

Question 36

example of an oxymoron

Answer 36

answers may vary

Question 37

give an example of imagery

Answer 37

answers may vary