Figures of Speech

Which of the following is an example of HYPERBOLE?

• “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!”

• “She is as beautiful as a flower.”

• “Oh, Aphrodite! Please give me the man that I love!”

• “The police station was robbed!”

Identify what figure of speech is used in the underlined sentence below.

He’s a couch potato.

• Personification

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

It is a figure of speech that speaks to an item or object that is not alive as if it were in fact, alive.

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe

• Synecdoche

• Allusion

Annie: “Mom, my friend told me I have gorgeous eyes!”

Mother: “It is true. Your eyes are as beautiful as the night sky.”

What figure of speech did the Mother use?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

Which of the following is an example of ALLUSION?

• “The river shines brightly as if it were filled with silver dusts.”

• “Without you, no day ever makes sense.”

• “No Madonna and Child could touch
  that picture of a mother’s tenderness
  for a son she soon would have to forget.”

• “I think I'm gonna win this time!
  Riding on the wind, and I won't give up!”

“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name.

Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love

And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”

Which part in the underlined text above is an example APOSTROPHE?

• O, Romeo, Romeo

• Refuse thy name

• And I’ll no longer be a Capulet

• Dent thy father

It is a figure of speech which attributes to the personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

• Personafication

• Personification

• Anchorpersons

• Humanification

In the song “Mean” by Taylor Swift, there was a lyric there that best exemplifies how simile can be used in composing a song. Which part of the song do you think is using SIMILE?

“You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you have used against me. You have knocked me off my feet again.”

• “You have knocked me off my feet again.”

• “Swords and weapons that you have used against me.”

• “Off my feet again”

• “You with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you have used against me.”

It is a figure of speech which shows expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.

• Alliteration

• Synecdoche

• Onomatopoeia

• Irony

In Enhypen’s song called “Highway 1009” what figure of speech was used in this line:

“I told you like a million times”?

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor