Figures Of Speech

Question 1

Compare two things or a comparison in which one thing is said to be another.

Answer 1

Metaphor

Question 2

A comparison of two things by using to things “like or as”

Answer 2

Simile

Question 3

Giving human qualities to animals or objects

Answer 3

Personification

Question 4

An exaggerated statement

Answer 4

Hyperbole

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Idiom

Question 6

A humorous play on words which suggest multiple meanings

Answer 6

Pun

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Alliteration

Question 8

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sound in a series of words,phrases and or syllables

Answer 8

Assonance

Question 9

A word that imitates a sound it represents

Answer 9

Onomatopoeia

Question 10

A reference to a famous person,place or event

Answer 10

Allusion

Question 11

Contradictory terms appear side by side. Known as a compressed paradox

Answer 11

Oxymoron

Question 12

Irony is the use of words that means the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny

Answer 12

Irony

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Foreshadowing

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Flashback