WorksheetsSound Devices - Poetry
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
A statement that looks like a contradiction; but makes good sense when you examine it more closely.
Paradox
Irony
Oxymoron
Litotes
The placement of two contrasting ideas side by side.
Paradox
Oxymoron
Irony
Meiosis
Saying the opposite of what you really mean is called ...
(a)
Choose the 3 correct forms of Irony:
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Climatic Irony
Bathos Irony
Irony of Fate
A deliberate exaggeration in order to make a point.
Meiosis
Innuendo
Hyperbole
Homophone
Meiosis is the opposite of a ........ making an understatement in order to prove a point.
Litote
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Assonance
A Euphemism, like Meiosis, is an understatement. It expresses an unpleasant reality in a more sensitive way
True
False
A special kind of euphemism which makes a statement by denying the opposite of that statement.
Meiosis
Metonymy
Litotes
Oxymoron
This picture of a disrespectful remark that is made in the form of an insinuation, is an example of:
Metonymy
Innuendo
Synecdoche
Pun
The picture of identifying a thing by mentioning something associated with it, is a ...
Metonymy
Euphemism
Synecdoche
Sarcasm
Only mentions a part of a thing when it means the whole, or vice versa.
Antithesis
Innuendo
Synecdoche
Metonymy
Using two similar sounding words for humorous effect.
Sarcasm
Jokes
Allusions
Pun
Addressing an absent person or inanimate object.
Metonymy
Innuendo
Apostrophe
Bathos
A question to which an answer is not expected.
Sarcasm
Anticlimax
Antithesis
Rhetorical
A statement in the form of 2 opposed elements
Climax
Anticlimax
Bathos
Antithesis
the statement in the picture picture is organized in ascending order. This is an example of ...
Anticlimax
Bathos
Alliteration
Climax
Anticlimax and Bathos are the same except Bathos is intentional and Anticlimax is not.
True
False
The repetition of consonant sounds
Assonance
Homonym
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
The repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Alliteration
Antithesis
Homophone
words that imitate sounds and echoes meaning
Alliteration
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Homonyms
