Tropes

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

Making an implied comparison, not using “like,” as,” or other such words.

Ex: “My feet are popsicles.”

Question 2

Extended Metaphor

Answer 2

When the metaphor is continued later in the written work.

Ex: If I continued to call my feet “my popsicles” in later paragraphs, that would be an extended metaphor.

Question 3

Simile

Answer 3

Using words such as “like” or “as” to make a direct comparison between two very different things.

Ex: “My feet are so cold they feel like popsicles.”

Question 4

Personification

Answer 4

Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human.

Ex: “The tired old truck groaned as it inched up the hill.”

Question 5

Hyperbole

Answer 5

Exaggeration.

Ex: “My mother will kill me if I am late.”

Question 6

Oxymoron

Answer 6

When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox.

Ex: “wise fool,” “eloquent silence,” “jumbo shrimp.”

Question 7

Onomatopoeia

Answer 7

The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes.

Ex: Snap, rustle, boom, murmur

Question 8

Metonymy

Answer 8

Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept.

Ex: “Relations between London and Washington have been strained,” does not literally mean relations between the two cities, but between the leaders of the United States and England. Metonymy is often used with body parts: “I could not understand his tongue,” means his language or his speech.

Question 9

Synecdoche

Answer 9

A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa.

Ex: “The cattle rancher owned 500 head.” “Check out my new wheels.”