Figures Of Speech

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

Comparing without the uses of like or as

Question 2

Personification

Answer 2

Giving human qualities to inanimate things

Question 3

Apostrophe

Answer 3

Referring to the dead or inanimate object as if it were human

Question 4

Allusion

Answer 4

Direct or indelicate referral to particular aspect

Question 5

Alliteration

Answer 5

Repetition of consonants

Question 6

Assonance

Answer 6

Repetition of vowels

Question 7

Onomatopoeia

Answer 7

Uses words to imitate real life sounds

Question 8

Rhyme

Answer 8

Depends on sound

Question 9

Antithesis

Answer 9

Compares and contradicts ideas or statements in a sentence

Question 10

Oxymoron

Answer 10

Contradictory words placed next to each other

Question 11

Paradox

Answer 11

Contradictory statements when analysed are true

Question 12

Irony

Answer 12

Implies the opposite of what is said

Question 13

Sarcasm

Answer 13

Something else intended

Question 14

Satire

Answer 14

Irony or sarcasm used to ridicule someone or something

Question 15

Epigram

Answer 15

Brief or pointed statement containing humour or irony

Question 16

Hyperbole

Answer 16

Over exaggeration

Question 17

Litote

Answer 17

Negative and opposite to understate what is intended

Question 18

Euphemism

Answer 18

Making things sound nicer than what they seem

Question 19

Innuendo

Answer 19

Disproving remark without stating directly

Question 20

Climax

Answer 20

Build up or peak of idea

Question 21

Bathos

Answer 21

Build up to final statement which is flat or unexpected

Question 22

Puns

Answer 22

Clever play on words

Question 23

Rhetorical questions

Answer 23

Questions with no answer

Question 24

Synecdoche

Answer 24

A part is used for a whole and visa versa

Question 25

Metonymy

Answer 25

Something associated with the object represents the object

Question 26

Malapropism

Answer 26

Incorrect or similar sounding words

Question 27

Spoonerism

Answer 27

Mixing up of initial sounds of spoken words

Question 28

Simile

Answer 28

Comparing with like or as

Question 29

Redundancy

Answer 29

Something repeated an is not necessary

Question 30

Misrelated participle

Answer 30

Relating wrong verb to wrong subject
Eg. Walking down the road, my glasses broke
Means glasses were walking

Question 31

Comma splice

Answer 31

Using comma instead of full stop

Question 32

Mixed metaphor

Answer 32

Two metaphors next to each other meaning different things

Question 33

Split infinitive

Answer 33

Separate the “to” and the verb. Meant to be “to” + verb

Question 34

Ambiguity

Answer 34

2 meanings and not sure of which one

Eg. We saw her duck