Tropes

Question 0

Metaphor

Answer 0

Comparison that refers to one thing as another

Question 1

Trope

Answer 1

Artful variation from the typical or expected way a word or idea is expressed

Question 2

Simile

Answer 2

Comparison using “like” or “as”

Question 3

Synecdoche

Answer 3

Part of something is used to signify the whole

Question 4

Metonymy

Answer 4

Person, place or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it

Question 5

Personification

Answer 5

Gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human qualities

Question 6

Hyperbole

Answer 6

Use of exaggerated terms for heightened effect

Question 7

Litotes

Answer 7

Use of understatement

Question 8

Verbal irony

Answer 8

Saying one thing while meaning the opposite

Question 9

Situational irony

Answer 9

Situation turns out unexpectedly

Question 10

Dramatic irony

Answer 10

The audience knows more then the characters

Question 11

Onomatopoeia

Answer 11

Word whose sound imitates that which it names

Question 12

Oxymoron

Answer 12

Paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression

Question 13

Paradox

Answer 13

An apparently contradictory statement that contains a measure of truth

Question 14

Pun

Answer 14

Play on words

Question 15

Allusion

Answer 15

Reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place or thing

Question 16

Apostrophe

Answer 16

Type of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present