Figures of Speech and Sound Devices

Which of the following refers to a rhetorical device that uses language indirectly to create a more impactful effect, often by emphasizing or clarifying meaning?

• Figurative Language

• Figurative Meaning

• Figure of Speech

• Sound Devices

What refers to the transfer of human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract qualities?

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Which statement about Hyperbole is TRUE?

• It appears to be contradictory.

• It is a specific kind of paradox.

• It shows exaggeration.

• It's the use of one word for another.

What refers to the tools that writers use to make their writing sound interesting and musical?

• Onomatopoeia

• Sound Devices

• Speech Devices

• Theme of the poem

5. Which of the following is an example of Simile?

• Her cheeks are red like a rose.

• My brother was boiling mad.

• Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

• Your enemy's friend is your enemy.

6. What refers to the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

7. The water splashed when he dropped the glass. "Splashed" is what kind of figure of speech?

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

In the poem "Daffodils", the line "Ten thousand saw I at a glance" is an example of which figure of speech?

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

Which of the following refers to an implied comparison between two persons or things which are unlike in most respects and does NOT use "like" or "as" ?

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

"The flowers are dancing in the breeze" is an example of which figure of speech ?

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

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