Figures of Speech

Question 1

What is a Simile?

Answer 1

A comparison

which likens one object to another

Question 2

What words are used in a simile?

Answer 2

Like

As

Question 3

What is a Metaphor?

Answer 3

When two OBJECTS are compared as if they were

IDENTICAL

Question 4

What is Alliteration?

Answer 4

When there is a RECURRING CONSONANT

Example:
freddy
fried
frosty
frogs

Question 5

What is Assonance?

Answer 5

When the same VOWEL is REPEATED.

Example:
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.

Question 6

What is Onomatopoeia?

Answer 6

When the SOUND of a word also gives its MEANING

Example:
POP
BAM!
BOOM
SPLASH
DRIZZLE

Question 7

What is a Pun?

Answer 7

A humours play on words

Example:
What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator!
What do you call a sleeping bull? A bull-dozer.

Question 8

What is a Homonym?

Answer 8

Words that have the same PRONOUNCED but different meanings.

Example:
Ate  :  Eight
Brake  :  Break
Die  :  Dye
Flour  :  Flower

Question 9

What is personification?

Answer 9

The form of metaphor in which an inanimate ( non-human) object is given human characteristics.

Question 10

Which figures of speech are used for comparisons?

Answer 10

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification

Question 11

Which figures of speech are called “sound devices”?

Answer 11

1. Alliteration
2. Assonance
3. Onomatopoeia
4. Pun