Figures of speech

Question 1

Hyperbole

Answer 1

An exaggerated statement

Question 2

Personification

Answer 2

Giving human qualities to animals or objects

Question 3

Simile

Answer 3

A comparison of two things by using like or as

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

A comparison of two thing in which one thing is said to be another

Question 5

Idiom

Answer 5

An expression that doesn’t exactly mean what the words mean

She spilled the beans

Question 6

Pun

Answer 6

A humorous play on words which suggest multiple meaning

Question 7

Alliteration

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The use of the same beginning constant sound in a line or verse

Question 8

Assonance

Answer 8

This is the reputation of identical or similar vowel sound in a series of words ; phrases ,and/or syllables

Question 9

Anomatopea

Answer 9

A word that images the sound it represents

Question 10

Allusion

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A reference to a famous person ,place,or event

Question 11

Oxymoron

Answer 11

Contradictory terms appear side by side : known as a compressed paradox

Question 12

Irony

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The use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny

Question 13

Foreshadowing

Answer 13

When the author hints or mentions at something that will happen later in the story

Question 14

Flashback

Answer 14

When the author refers back to something that already took place in the story