Figurative Language Quiz 1

Metaphor

• Exaggeration

• A comparison NOT using like or as

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

Hyperbole

• Exaggeration

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A word that imitates the sound it represents

• Repetition of similar vowel sounds

Simile

• Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• Side by side contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence)

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa (wheels for car) (the law for police officers)

Personification

• When the audience is aware of something that a character isn't

• Sarcasm

• A less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant

• Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

Onomatopoeia

• A statement that seems contradictory but actually makes sense or has some truth

• Repetition of similar vowel sounds

• The repetition of similar grammatical patterns.

• A word that imitates the sound it represents.

Assonance

• Sarcasm

• A common expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

• The repetition of similar grammatical patterns.

• Repetition of similar vowel sounds

Paradox

• Repetition of similar vowel sounds

• A statement that seems contradictory but actually makes sense or has some truth

• The repetition of similar grammatical patterns

• When the audience is aware of something that a character isn't

Anaphora

• A less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant

• A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

• The repetition of similar grammatical patterns.

• Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive sentences

Parallelism

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• The repetition of similar grammatical patterns.

• A comparison NOT using like or as

• A common expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

Synecdoche

• Repetition of the same letter or sound

• Side by side contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence)

• A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa (wheels for car) (the law for police officers)

• A humorous play on words (like dad jokes)