AICE Figurative LAnguage 1

Meiosis, litotes, and euphemisms are forms of

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Understatement

• Juxtaposition

__________ is when a word connoting something small is substituted for a large thing.

• Synecdoche

• Litotes

• Euphemism

• Meiosis

____________ is used when the writer employs two phrases or sentences of contrasting meanings in close proximity to one another.

• Litote

• Anthesis

• Juxtaposition

• Reversal

"I am going to swing by the golden arches."

Is an example of ...

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Irony

• Imagery

A good definition of Apostrophe in figurative Language is ..

• A piece of punctuation showing ownership or used in contractions.

• A figure of speech that creates a parallel relationship with two words or ideas in order to explain the relationship between two things.

• A figure of speech where the speaker detaches him/herself from reality in order to speak an inanimate object or imaginary character

• A word that compares one thing to another that is not the same.

This form of figurative language uses “like” or “as” to create approximation and comparison between different things.

• Apostrophe

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Litotes are

• A figure of speech that uses of exaggeration for extra effect.

• A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.

• Is when a person, concept, place, idea or theme is placed parallel to another.

• Is a figure of speech that uses one thing to mean another and makes a comparison between the two.

A figure of speech where non-human things are given human characteristics is

• An aphorism

• Onamonapia

• Euphemism

• Personification

Which form of contradiction can be characterized as it comes with only two words that contradicts itself..

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

"Piece of Cake" is an example of

• Simile

• Paradox

• Idiom

• Cliche