WorksheetsFigure of Speech
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
It is an explicit or direct comparison between two things of different classes.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Synecdoche
It is bolder than simile and the comparison is implied or indirect between two objects of different classes
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Synecdoche
A figure of speech that gives human qualities or attributes to non-human or inanimate object.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Synecdoche
It names a part of an object to stand for the whole, or the whole for a part.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Synecdoche
It involves the use of a term connected with an object to represent that object.
Metonymy
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Parodox
It involves a deliberate exaggeration used for effect.
Metonymy
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Paradox
It is putting side by side of two normally contradictory words.
Metonymy
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Paradox
It is saying something which seems untrue, but on close examination, proves to be true or partly true.
Metonymy
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Paradox
It is a casual reference either by directly or by borrowing familiar phrases from the bible, history or literature.
Allusion
Irony
Onomatopoeia
Litotes
It involves a contrast, a discrepancy between the expected and what actually happens.
Allusion
Irony
Onomatopoeia
Litotes
It is the formation or use of words having a sound that imitates what they denote.
Allusion
Irony
Onomatopoeia
Litotes
It is a deliberate understatement used to affirm by negating its opposite.
Allusion
Irony
Onomatopoeia
Litotes
It is a direct address to someone absent, long dead, or even to an inanimate objects or ideas.
Apostrophe
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
It is the repetition of the initial consonant sound in the sentence. It is also known as "tongue twister”.
Apostrophe
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
It is the repetition of the middle vowel sound.
Apostrophe
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
It is sometimes called “slant” rhyme. Both consonants occur at the end of the word as in odds and ends.
Apostrophe
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
What kind of Figure of Speech is:
Jose Rizal, where are the youth today?
Litotes
Apostrophe
Paradox
Irony
What kind of Figure of Speech is:
You're so kind to answer back your parent.
Apostrophe
Alliteration
Irony
Paradox
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Apostrophe
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
a. Race and make, foolish and crooning
b. Dreary and weary, napping and tapping
a. Consonance
b. Assonance
a. Assonance
b. Consonance
a. Assonance
b. Alliteration
a. Consonance
b. Alliteration
