Trope (Figures Of Thought)

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

Direct comparison

Question 2

Submerged metaphor

Answer 2

Compared items must be deduced from text. Can be several lines apart

Question 3

Conceit

Answer 3

Far fetched metaphor

Love=bag

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

Like or as

Question 5

Metonomy

Answer 5

Thing/concept substituted for another name

crown=government

Question 6

Synecdoche

Answer 6

Mentions part of object that signifies whole

Wheels=car

Question 7

Verbal irony

Answer 7

Opposite is said from what is meant

Question 8

Dramatic irony

Answer 8

Contrast between what character says/thinks and what reader knows

Question 9

Situational irony

Answer 9

Situation happens which is not expected

Question 10

Sarcasm

Answer 10

Mocking remarks

Question 11

Paradox

Answer 11

Self contradictory statement

Question 12

Personification

Answer 12

Gives human qualities to animals/objects/ideas

Question 13

Objectification/dehumanization

Answer 13

applies non-human attributed to a human

Question 14

Hyperbole/overstatement

Answer 14

Extreme exaggeration

Question 15

Understatement

Answer 15

Statement less dramatic than it should be

“It was ok” says the person who got highest mark