Figure Of Speech

Question 1

Compare two things

Answer 1

Metaphor

Question 2

The comparison of two things using “like” or “as”

Answer 2

Simile

Question 3

An exaggerated statement

Answer 3

Hyperbole

Question 4

Giving human qualities to animals or objects

Answer 4

Personification

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Idiom

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Alliteration

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Assonance

Question 8

A humorous play on words which suggest multiple meanings

Answer 8

Pun

Question 9

A word that imitates the sound it represents

Answer 9

Onomatopoeia

Question 10

A reference to a famous person place or event

Answer 10

Allusion

Question 11

Two words that have opposite meanings

Answer 11

Oxymoron

Question 12

Ironic statements

Answer 12

Sarcasm

Question 13

When an author refers back to something that already took place

Answer 13

Flashback

Question 14

Predicting something that will happen later in the future

Answer 14

Foreshadowing