Figures Of Speech

Question 1

Analogy

Answer 1

A logical argument for a proportional relationship between two sets of qualities.
Provides insight by explaining something complex by using something familiar.

Question 2

Oxymoron

Answer 2

Two opposite ideas are put together for joined effect.

Jumbo shrimp. Living death. Cruel kindness.

Question 3

Rhetorical question

Answer 3

A question asked without expecting an answer

Question 4

Hyperbole

Answer 4

To make a hyperbole easier to swallow start small and work your way up - budget and diet, life and death, and the future of humanity

Question 5

Coyness (accismus)

Answer 5

The oh-you-shouldn’t-have figure.

Question 6

Dialogue (dialogismus)

Answer 6

Repeats a conversation for rhetorical effect. Use it to add realism to storytelling.

Question 7

Speak-around (periphrasis)

Answer 7

Uses a description in place of the name.

He who must not be named, for Voldemort

Broad, for women

Question 8

Repeated first word (anaphora)

Answer 8

As in the Bible…

And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

And god said let there be light
And there was light
And god saw the light, that it was good

Question 9

Multiple yoking (diazeugma)

Answer 9

The play by play figure, making one noun serve a cluster of verbs.

” he takes the puck, gets it past two defenders, shoots, misses, shoots again, goal!

Question 10

Idiom

Answer 10

Combines words to make a single meaning.

“Take it with a grain of salt”
“Catch my drift”