Types of Figurative Language

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. Includes the use of words such as “like”, “as”, or “than”

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Question 3

Hyperbole

Answer 3

A figure of speech that exaggerates statements and claims. It’s not to be taken seriously or literally.

Question 4

Personification

Answer 4

The addition of personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman.

Question 5

Synecdoche

Answer 5

When a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.

Question 6

Onomatopoeia

Answer 6

The use of the creation of a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

Question 7

Idiom

Answer 7

A figure of speech that when taken as a whole, has a meaning you wouldn’t be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words.

Question 8

Assonance

Answer 8

The repetition of words that are nonrhyming but sound similar, or the repetition of words that have similar vowels without the repetition of consonants.

Question 9

Allusion

Answer 9

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Question 10

Alliteration

Answer 10

The clear repetition of words that have the same letter or sound at the beginning.

Question 11

Hypophora

Answer 11

A figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question.