Figures of speech

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

Direct comparison of two unlike things, not using “like”, “as” or “than”

Question 2

Personification

Answer 2

Giving human qualities to non-human things

Question 3

Onomatopoeia

Answer 3

Words that mime the sounds they are describing

Question 4

Hyperbole

Answer 4

Obvious exaggeration used to heighten the effect

Question 5

Idiom

Answer 5

An expression which when taken literally makes no sense

Question 6

Simile

Answer 6

Indirect comparison of two unlike things using “like”, “as” or “than”