Figures of Speech

Question 1

Figures of Speech

Comparing using as/like

Answer 1

Simile

Question 2

Figures of Speech

Comparing using as/like

Answer 2

Simile

Question 3

Figures of Speech

Comparing without as/like

Answer 3

Metaphor

Question 4

Figures of Speech

Giving human qualities to non-living things

Answer 4

Personification

Question 5

Figures of Speech

Exaggerating

Answer 5

Hyperbole

Question 6

Figures of Speech

Exaggerating

Answer 6

Hyperbole

Question 7

Figures of Speech

Repeating the same sound at tge beginning of words

Answer 7

Alliteration

Question 8

Figures of Speech

A statement which contradicts itself

Answer 8

Paradox

Question 9

Figures of Speech

2 words in a phrase contradicts one another

Answer 9

Oxymoron

Question 10

Figures of Speech

Word that resembles the sound it is describing

Answer 10

Onomatopeia

Question 11

Figures of Speech

A phrase or word is replaced with another which has a similar meaning

Answer 11

Metonymy

Question 12

Figures of Speech

A part of something is used to represent the whole

Answer 12

Synedoche

Question 13

Figures of Speech

Use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think

Answer 13

Irony

Question 14

Which figure of speech has been used here?

He was as brave as a lion

Answer 14

Simile

Question 15

Which figure of speech has been used here?

Ria heard the last piece of pie calling her name

Answer 15

Personification

Question 16

Which figure of speech has been used here?

My alarm yelled at me this morning

Answer 16

Personification

Question 17

Which figure of speech has been used here?

Her eyes are diamonds

Answer 17

Metaphor

Question 18

Which figure of speech has been used here?

“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women are merely players; They have their exits and their entrances”

Answer 18

Metaphor

The world was compared to a stage

Question 19

Which figure of speech has been used here?

Death lays its icy hands on kings

Answer 19

Personification

Question 20

Which figure of speech has been used here?

Blind justice was not on his side

Answer 20

Oxymoron

Question 21

Which figure of speech has been used here?

I’ve told you to stop a thousand times

Answer 21

Hyperbole

Question 22

Which figure of speech has been used here?

A traffic cop gets suspended for not paying his parking tickets

Answer 22

Irony

Question 23

Which figure of speech has been used here?

I gave you my heart

Answer 23

Metonymy

The word “heart” is a metonymy for love

Question 24

Which figure of speech has been used here?

Can you give me a hand carrying thus box up the stairs?

Answer 24

Metonymy

Question 25

Which figure of speech has been used here?

The White House will be making an announcement

Answer 25

Metonymy

Question 26

Which figure of speech has been used here?

The flood water gushed through the town

Answer 26

Onomatopoeia: gushed

Question 27

Which figure of speech has been used here?

Suddenly, there was a loud thud at the door

Answer 27

Onomatopoeia: thud

Question 28

Which figure of speech has been used here?

Jake got some new wheels!

Answer 28

Synecdoche

Jack got a new car

Question 29

Which figure of speech has been used here?

I can’t wait to get back on the waves

Answer 29

Synecdoche

Wave —-> ocean

Question 30

Which figure of speech has been used here?

Behind the bars

Answer 30

Synecdoche

Being in jail

Question 31

Which figure of speech has been used here?

A cat lover being allergic to cats

Answer 31

Irony

Question 32

Which figure of speech has been used here?

Bright night lights

Answer 32

Assonance

Question 33

Which figure of speech has been used here?

She sleeps soundly on her bed

Answer 33

Assonance

Question 34

Which figure of speech has been used here?

This is the worst dessert in the world

Answer 34

Hyperbole

Question 35

Which figure of speech has been used here?

Her smile was a mile wide

Answer 35

Hyperbole

Question 36

Which figure of speech has been used here?

I could eat a whole cow

Answer 36

Hyperbole

Question 37

Which figure of speech has been used here?

The food was awfully good

Answer 37

Oxymoron

Question 38

Which figure of speech has been used here?

There was a deafening silence in the room

Answer 38

Oxymoron