Figurative Language Terms High School

What figure of speech is used in the following quote...

"Not a bad day's work"

• synecdoche

• apostrophe

• litotes

• metaphor

What figure of speech is used in the following sentence:

Tick-tock, tick-tock - was all that could be heard in the hospital room.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• allegory

• metonymy

What figure of speech is used in the following sentence:

"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly."

• alliteration

• metonymy

• allusion

• simile

What figure of speech is used in the following sentence:

"I'm dying to get my hands on the new iPad Pro."

• onomatopoeia

• allegory

• irony

• hyperbole

What figure of speech is used in the following sentence:

"The library is the tallest building in town because it has thousands of stories."

• metaphor

• personification

• pun

• allusion

What figure of speech is used in the following sentence:

"All the world's a stage and we are merely players."

• metaphor

• apostrophe

• allusion

• personification

What figure of speech is used in the following sentence:

"Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why do you, through the windows and the curtains, call on us?"

• simile

• allusion

• apostrophe

• pun

What figure of speech is used in the following sentence:

"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears."

• irony

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metonymy

If a fire occurs inside a fire station, what figure of speech is at play?

• irony

• allegory

• litotes

• hyperbole

What figure of speech is used in the following sentence:

"Have a little charity... don't be a Scrooge!"

• personification

• synecdoche

• apostrophe

• allusion