Figures of Speech

What figure of speech refers to giving human traits to non-human or inanimate objects?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

What figure of speech uses extreme exaggeration?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

What figure of speech compare things or objects by using “as” or “like.”?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

What figure of speech compares two unlike objects or things, which may have some common qualities?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

What figure of speecg uses words/ statements to convey the opposite of their literal meaning?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

The statement below is an example of what figure of speech?

“Hadn’t she felt it in every touch of the sunshine, as its golden finger-tips pressed her lids open and wound their way through her hair?”

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

The statement below is an example of what figure of speech?

"I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you

Till China and Africa meet,

And the river jumps over the mountain

And the salmon sing in the street.”

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

The statement below is an example of what figure of speech?

"My heart is like a singing bird

Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;

My heart is like an apple-tree

My heart is like a rainbow shell…"

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

The statement below is an example of what figure of speech?

"Presentiment – is that long shadow – on the lawn –

Indicative that Suns go down –

The notice to the startled Grass

That Darkness – is about to pass –"

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

The statement below is an example of what figure of speech?

"Oh, I love spending big bucks," said my dad, a notorious penny pincher.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony