Figures of Speech

Question 1

What is a pathetic fallacy?

Answer 1

Using the weather/nature to create mood atmosphere

Question 2

What is a rhetorical question?

Answer 2

Asking a questions that doesn’t require an answer

but is used to make the reader think

Question 3

What figure of speech is being used?

She climbs like a monkey.

Answer 3

simlie

Question 4

What figure of speech is being used?

The approaching car’s headlights winked at me.

Answer 4

Hyperbole

Question 5

What is a metaphor?

Answer 5

Comparing two things together by saying one thing is another

Question 6

What figure of speech is being used?

I heard the door ‘ding-a-ling’ and groaned as I knew exactly who it was.

Answer 6

Onomatopoeia

Question 7

Whaat is Onomatopoeia?

Answer 7

Using the word that describes the sound

Question 8

What figure of speech is being used?

That guy is as nutty as a fruitcake.

Answer 8

Simlie

Question 9

What is a personification?

Answer 9

Giving non-human things human features/qualities

Question 10

What figure of speech is being used?

My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

Answer 10

Personification

Question 11

Can you name the 5 categories of figures of speech?

Answer 11

In any order 
1. Figures of emphasis or understatement
2. Verbal games and gymnastics
3. figures of resemblance or relationship
4. Errors
5.

Question 12

What figure of speech is being used?

People have robbed the robbers

Answer 12

Situational Irony

Question 13

What is an idiom?

Answer 13

A common phrase that has a well known meaning

Question 14

What figure of speech is being used?

‘During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country.’

Answer 14

Pathetic Fallacy

Question 15

What is a simile?

Answer 15

Comparing two things together using the phrases ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 16

Name the 3 types of irony

Answer 16

1. Verbal
2. Situational
3. Dramatic

Question 17

What is an oxymoron?

Answer 17

Two words that contradict each other

Question 18

What figure of speech is being used?

BANG

Answer 18

onomatopoeia

Question 19

What is dramatic Irony?

Answer 19

When the audience of a dramatic piece knows something that a character doesn’t.

Question 20

What figure of speech is being used?

‘Oh wow the river is so fresh!’ ( to a river that is full of rubbish).

Answer 20

Verbal Irony

Question 21

What figure of speech is being used?

Bitter sweet

Answer 21

oxymoron

Question 22

What is Verbal Irony ?

Answer 22

When a speaker says something contrary to what they really mean.

Question 23

What is hyperbole?

Answer 23

Using exaggeration to make a point

Question 24

What figure of speech is being used?

He’s running faster than the wind.

Answer 24

Hyperbole

Question 25

What is situational Irony?

Answer 25

When the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what was expected.

Question 26

What figure of speech is being used?

Easy as pie

Answer 26

idiom

Question 27

What figure of speech is being used?

‘What time do you call this?’

Answer 27

Rhetorical Question