Figures of Speech/Literary Terms

What is a figure of speech that makes an indirect reference to a well-known person, place or event?

• allusion

• cliché

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

What is it called when an outcome is the opposite of what is expected?

• personification

• simile

• irony

• hyperbole

What is it called when contradictory terms appear together side by side?

• idiom

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• metaphor

What is it called when words make sounds

• irony

• onomatopoeia

• cliché

• simile

What is a comparison of unlike things using like or as?

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• idiom

What is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects?

• metaphor

• allusion

• hyperbole

• personification

What is an exaggeration used to make or prove a point?

• hyperbole

• irony

• alliteration

• oxymoron

What is a word or phrase that means something other than what is actually said?

• idiom

• oxymoron

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

What is a direct comparison of unlike things that says something is another thing

• cliché

• metaphor

• irony

• idiom

What is a phrase or expressions that is overused?

• cliché

• personification

• allusion

• hyperbole