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WorksheetsFigures of Speech
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
What figure of speech involves an exaggeration for emphasis or effect?
a. Hyperbole
b. Personification
c. Metonymy
d. Irony
Which figure of speech compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
a. Litotes
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
d. Allusion
What is the figure of speech where a part represents the whole or vice versa?
a. Synecdoche
b. Oxymoron
c. Personification
d. Alliteration
Which figure of speech gives human qualities to inanimate objects or animals?
a. Allusion
b. Personification
c. Pun
d. Paradox
What figure of speech combines contradictory terms?
a. Paradox
b. Oxymoron
C. Irony
d. Synecdoche
Which figure of speech involves a statement that appears self-contradictory but contains a deeper truth?
a. Allusion
b. Litotes
c. Anaphora
d. Paradox
What is the figure of speech that uses a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning?
a. Anaphora
b. Euphemism
c. Irony
d. Idioms
Which figure of speech is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?
a. Metonymy
b. Apostrophe
C. Assonance
d. Allusion
What figure of speech involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences?
a. Litotes
b. Anaphora
c. Alliteration
d. Consonance
Which figure of speech replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated?
a. Simile
b. Oxymoron
c. Synecdoche
d. Metonymy
"Her smile was as bright as the sun." What figure of speech is used in this sentence?
(a)
"The world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players." What figure of speech is used in this sentence?
(a)
"I've told you a million times to clean your room." What figure of speech is used in this sentence?
(a)
"The stars dance playfully in the sky." What figure of speech is used in this sentence?
(a)
" What a great day for a picnic," she said as rain poured down. What figure of speech is used in this sentence?
(a)
