Review Flashcards
An inconsistency between an actual and an expected result of an event is what?
Irony
Silly Sally sold seashells down by the sea shore!
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Alliteration
What type of figurative language is being used?
My love is like a red, red rose.
Simile
When the audience knows more than a character does about a situation is what?
Dramatic irony
What type of figurative language is being used?
His voice was silk.
Metaphor
A word or words, which are formed or sounded alike, but have a different meaning; to have more than one possible meaning is called what?
Pun
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally are called…
Hyperbole
This type of irony occurs when the exact opposite of what is meant or expected to happen, happens.
Situational irony
A figure of speech that compares two things, but does not use like or as is known as what?
Metaphor
That guy was as tall as the St. Louis Arch!
What type of figurative language is this?
Hyperbole
A figurative language technique where an object or idea is given human characteristics.
Personification
A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing is called what?
Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech that compares two things using like or as is known as what.
Simile
The use of words that begin with the same sound near one another is called what?
Alliteration
That pencil is pointless!
What type of figurative language is being used?
Pun
I’m feeling under the weather.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Idiom
The grass begged for sunlight and water.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification
An expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements is called what?
Idiom
The use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says is what?
Verbal irony
The car raced down the street and then, BOOM, it exploded when it hit the tree. Good thing is was a remote control car!
What type of figurative language is being used here?
Onomatopoeia
