Quiz: Figures of Speech By: Teacher Myrel

1. What figure of speech is used when there is a contradiction between what is said and what is meant?

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

1. What figure of speech involves the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words within a sentence or phrase?

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

In this figure of speech, an idea or thing is represented as something else.

• Paradox

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

1. Which figure of speech involves the use of words that imitate the sounds they describe?

• Simile

• Paradox

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

What figure of speech involves the use of exaggeration for emphasis?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Irony

Which figure of speech directly compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Metonymy

A figure of speech in which a word is substituted for another word that it is closely associated with.

• Synecdoche

• Paradox

• Metonymy

• Oxymoron

Which figure of speech attributes human qualities to inanimate things and abstract ideas.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Oxymoron

A figure of speech in which a specific part of something is used to refer to the whole thing.

• Oxymoron

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

• Irony

Which figure of speech is used when two contradictory words are placed together for effect?

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Synecdoche

• Assonance