Figures Of Speech

Question 1

Specific comparison bet 2 dissimilar elements

“Like” “as”

Answer 1

Simile

Question 2

Suggesting likeness bet 2

Answer 2

Metaphor

Question 3

Human qualities to inanimate objects

Answer 3

Personification

Question 4

A word used to stand in for another word

Answer 4

Metonymy

Question 5

Use of part to stand for a whole, the whole for a part

Answer 5

Synechdoche

Question 6

Exaggeration of fact or possibility

Answer 6

Hyperbole

Question 7

Positive statement is expressed by negating the opposite

Answer 7

Litotes

Question 8

Speaker says one thing but means the opposite

Answer 8

Verbal irony

Question 9

When a situation turns out to be completely opposite of what is expected

Answer 9

Irony of situation

Question 10

Audience or readers know something that a character in the story does not know

Answer 10

Dramatic irony

Question 11

Logically contradictory, yet makes good emotional sense

Answer 11

Paradox

Question 12

Combi of 2 seemingly incompatible elements

Answer 12

Oxymoron

Question 13

Use of reference to without explicit identification to a literary piece

Answer 13

Allusion

Question 14

Use of direct address to a person who is either absent or dead, an inanimate object, or an abstract idea

Answer 14

Apostrophe