Figures Of Speech

Question 1

What is a metaphor?

Answer 1

A metaphor is a indirect comparison Between two things

Question 2

What is an onomatopoeia?

Answer 2

An onomatopoeia is a sound word like “clang” or “boom”

Question 3

What is a simile?

Answer 3

Makes a direct comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 4

What is an alliteration?

Answer 4

The repetition of the first consonant in a group of words like big bob bumps bugs

Question 5

What is personification?

Answer 5

Giving life to a non living thing

Question 6

What is a hyperbole?

Answer 6

An exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally

Question 7

Name the figure of speech….The boat was tossed like a cork on the waves.

Answer 7

Simile

Question 8

Name the figure of speech….He was as brave as a lion.

Answer 8

Simile

Question 9

Name the figure of speech….he is a lion

Answer 9

metaphor

Question 10

Name the figure of speech….Death lays its icy hands on kings

Answer 10

personification

Question 11

A figure of speech is 
A. A familiar expression or saying
B. A non literal way of saying something
C. What the author literally means
D. Something only writers use

Answer 11

B

Question 12

Figures of speech mean exactly what the words say?
A. True
B. False

Answer 12

B

Question 13

What figure of speech do the words “like” and “as” appear in?

Answer 13

A simile

Question 14

What is the figure of speech in which non human or non living things are spoken about if they were human?

Answer 14

Personification