Figure Of Speech

Question 1

A comparison in which one thing is said to be another

My mom is a teddy bear

Answer 1

Metaphor

Question 2

A comparison of two things the words “like”or “as”

Answer 2

Simile

Question 3

Giving human qualities to animals or objects

Answer 3

Personification

Question 4

An exaggerated statement

Answer 4

Hyperbole

Question 5

An expression that doesn’t exactly mean what the words say

Answer 5

Idiom

Question 6

A numerous play on words which suggest multiple meanings

Answer 6

Pun

Question 7

The use of the same beginning consonant sound in a line or verse

Answer 7

Alliteration

Question 8

This is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sound in a series of words,phrases and/or syllables

Answer 8

Assonance

Question 9

A word that imitates the sound it represents

Answer 9

Onomatopoeia

Question 10

A reference to famous person,place,or thing

Answer 10

Allusion

Question 11

Contradictory terms appear side by side.known as a compressed paradox

Answer 11

Oxymoron

Question 12

The use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny

Answer 12

Irony

Question 13

When an author mentions or hints at something that will happen later in the story

Answer 13

Foreshadowing

Question 14

When an author refers back to something that already took place in the story

Answer 14

Flashback