Language and Rhetorical Figures Quiz

What is the term for language that means exactly what it says without embellishment?

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

• Figures of Thought

• Tropes

Which term describes rhetorical figures that involve a deviation from the ordinary pattern or arrangement of words?

• Literal Language

• Figures of Thought

• Simile

• Subtext

What is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?

• Metaphor

• Subtext

• Simile

• Tropes

Which term refers to the underlying or implicit meaning in dialogue or text?

• Metaphor

• Subtext

• Tropes

• Literal Language

What is the term for attributing human characteristics to non-human entities?

• Metonymy

• Personification

• Irony

• Synecdoche

Which figure of speech involves using a part to represent the whole or vice versa?

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

• Irony

• Personification

What is the term for a contrast between expectation and reality?

• Metonymy

• Irony

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Which term describes when what is said is the opposite of what is meant?

• Structural Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Sarcasm

• Unreliable Narrator

What is the use of irony to mock or convey contempt called?

• Structural Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Sarcasm

• Unreliable Narrator

What term describes a narrator whose credibility is compromised?

• Structural Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Sarcasm

• Unreliable Narrator