Figurative Language

What type of figure of speech is in the following sentence? "Our old house groaned and whined during the hurricane."

• Personification

• Pun

• Irony

• Allusion

If you wanted to say something that was literally true, would you use a figure of speech?

• Yes

• No

What kind of figure of speech says the opposite of what it means?

• Verbal irony

• Personification

• Pun

• Allusion

What kind of figure of speech makes a joke based on the fact that words have more than one meaning?

• Pun

• Irony

• Personification

• Allusion

If an allusion refers to a story from the Bible, what kind of allusion is it?

• Literary

• Mythology

• Biblical

• Irony

What kind of allusion does the following sentence make? "I think the god of thunder lives in the apartment above us."

• Biblical

• Literary

• Mythological

• Personification

What is this picture an example of?

• Pun

• Personification

• Allusion

• Irony