Figures of Speech (Words)

Question 1

consists of comparing two things using the words like or as.

Answer 1

Simile

Question 2

uses direct comparison of two unlike things or ideas.

Answer 2

Metaphor

Question 3

gives human traits to inanimate objects or ideas.

Answer 3

Personification

Question 4

is a direct address to someone absent, dead, or inanimate.

Answer 4

Apostrophe

Question 5

substitutes a word that closely relates to a person or a thing.

Answer 5

Metonymy

Question 6

uses a part to represent the whole

Answer 6

Synecdoche

Question 7

makes use of exaggeration.

Answer 7

Hyperbole

Question 8

says the opposite of what is meant.

Answer 8

Irony

Question 9

refers to any literary, biblical, historical, mythological, scientific event, character or place.

Answer 9

Allusion

Question 10

involves a contrast of words or ideas.

Answer 10

Antithesis

Question 11

uses a phrase or statement that on surface seems contradictor, but makes some kind of emotional sense.

Answer 11

Paradox

Question 12

puts together in one statement two contradictory terms

Answer 12

Oxymoron