tropes

Question 1

allusion

Answer 1

reference to famous event, person, or text

Question 2

hyperbole

Answer 2

deliberate exaggeration; only works if audience too is aware that exaggeration is intentional

Question 3

irony

Answer 3

gap between expectation and reality

Question 4

metaphor

Answer 4

implied analogy comparing two objects, alike in some way

Question 5

metonymy

Answer 5

trope which substitutes one word/image for another word/image it suggests

Question 6

personification

Answer 6

turns inanimate object into animate object with thoughts, feelings, etc; turns object into person

Question 7

rhetorical question

Answer 7

question posed by reader but not meant to be answered; used for emphasis or provocation

Question 8

simile

Answer 8

expressed analogy using words like or as

Question 9

synechdoche

Answer 9

form of metonymy; uses a part to represent the whole