Visual imagery and figures of speech

Question 1

figure of speech

Answer 1

any word or phrase that creates a ‘figure’ in the mind of the reader by effecting an obvious change in the usual meaning of words or word order

Question 2

trope

Answer 2

when a thing is compared or identified with another

Question 3

simile

Answer 3

a direct, explicit comparison of one thing with another

Question 4

analogy

Answer 4

like a metaphor, a representation of one thing or idea by something else (a brain is like a computer)

Question 5

metaphor

Answer 5

when two things are compared implicitly

Question 6

extended metaphor

Answer 6

when a metaphor dominates a longer section of a work

Question 7

controlling metaphor

Answer 7

if an extended metaphor is so extensive that it dominates the entire work

Question 8

personification

Answer 8

endowing something nonhuman with humanlike qualities

Question 9

metonymy

Answer 9

name of one thing is used to refer to another, associated thing

Question 10

synecdoche

Answer 10

type of metonymy in which the part is used to stand for the whole

Question 11

allusion

Answer 11

brief, often implicit reference in a literary work, to another text or any imaginary or historical person, place or thing