Figures of Speech Review

Textbooks usually define it as a comparison using "like" or "as," but other markers ("thus," "so") sometimes appear.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

A direct comparison between two things.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

Two different things or ideas are fused together and one thing is described as being another.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

In this figure of speech, the name of a thing is replaced by the name of an attribute of it or something else closely associated with it.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

In a ________, something is indirectly referred to by naming only a part or constituent of it to describe the whole of it.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

________ is a figure of speech in which one word is used to replace another to which it is closely linked.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

________ is a figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.

• Allusion

• Irony

• Personification

• Apostrophe

________ is a reference in literature to another work in literature, art, music, or history.

• Allusion

• Irony

• Personification

• Apostrophe

________ is the use of expressions meaning the opposite, or nearly the opposite, of what is literally said.

• Allusion

• Irony

• Personification

• Apostrophe

The ________ is a poetic phrase or speech made by a character that is addressed to a subject that is not literally present in the literary work.

• Allusion

• Irony

• Personification

• Apostrophe