Figures Of Speech

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

1. Comparison without the use of LIKE or AS
2. A metaphor refers to one personas being another.
3. The comparison is IMPLIED rather than stated directly.

Question 2

Extended metaphor

Answer 2

1. RECURRING metaphors or analogies which are expanded over a passage or throughout a poem.

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

1. gives HUMAN QUALITIES to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
2. Personification and metaphors are both INDIRECT COMPARISONS.

Question 4

Alliteration

Answer 4

1. REPETITION OF CONSONANT SOUNDS at the beginning of words.

2. Often highlights an expression of MOVEMENT.

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

1. REPETITION OF VOWEL SOUNDS (does not have to be at the beginning of words.
2. Short vowel sounds create mood of SPEED, VITALITY, JOY or SUSPENSE.
3. LONG vowel sounds slow down the pace and temper the mood.

Question 6

Onomatopoeia

Answer 6

1. Uses words that IMITATE and reproduce REAL-LIFE SOUNDS and actions.

Question 7

Rhyme

Answer 7

1. Depends on SOUND, rather than on the written word.

2. It is used for EFFECT.

Question 8

Antithesis

Answer 8

1. COMPARES and CONTRADICTS ideas or statements within a sentence.

Question 9

Oxymoron

Answer 9

1. Places two seemingly CONTRADICTORY WORDS next to each other.

Question 10

Paradox

Answer 10

1. SEEMINGLY ABSURD or CONTRADICTORY statement which, when analyzed, is found to be TRUE.
2. EXTENDED OXYMORON.

Question 11

Contrast

Answer 11

1. A strong DIFFERENCE between 2 things

Rich/poor

Question 12

Imagery

Answer 12

1. Words so DESCRIPTIVE they create a picture in the reader’s mind.

Question 13

Repetition

Answer 13

1. Words/ phrases/ sentences and structures REPEATED.

Question 14

Symbolism

Answer 14

1. SYMBOL that represents an IDEA.

Question 15

Simile

Answer 15

DIRECT COMPARISON that always contains the words LIKE or AS