Vocabulary Week 2

A joke that exploits the different possible meanings of a word, or of similar-sounding words...

• Pun

• Synecdoche

• Simile

• Oxymoron

A figure of speech in which a part of a phrase is used to represent the whole phrase or vise versa...

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Synecdoche

• Allusion

The comparison of two unlike things using like or as...

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction...

• Oxymoron

• Pun

• Idiom

• Allusion

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally...

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named...

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman...

• Pun

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Personification

A group of words whose meaning isn’t understood from their literal meaning...

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Personification

A reference to a famous person, place, or event...

• Personification

• Allusion

• Pun

• Hyperbole