Figurative Language 1
Figurative language 2
Isn't it ironic?
Verbal Irony and Wordplay
Grab Bag
100
This is a direct comparison of two unlike things, using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
This is when human characteristics are attributed to an object or idea.
What is personification?
100
This is when there is a difference between what the speaker means and the exact, literal meaning of the words the speaker says.
What is verbal irony?
100
This is a type of verbal irony--saying something more extreme than what you mean (also called exaggeration or overstatement).
What is hyperbole?
100
What terms that we've studied are shown in this example? Mr. Cooke is a demonic warthog.
What is a metaphor?
200
This is when a physical object is used to represent an idea bigger than just the object itself.
What is symbolism?
200
This is an implied comparison of two unlike things, in which one thing is described as something else because the two things share a common characteristic.
What is a metaphor?
200
This is when what happens turns out to be a clever opposite of what the reader or a character expects to happen (or hopes will happen)—or when the reality of a situation turns out to be completely different from its appearance on the surface.
What is situational irony?
200
This is the humorous use of a word or phrase in a way that suggests its different meanings, (or the use of words that are sound alike but differ in meaning).
What is a pun?
200
What terms that we've studied are shown in this example? This test has crept up on you, taking you by surprise. Oh, test, you sneaky thing! How I hate you.
What are personification and apostrophe?
300
This is when a writer extends a metaphor throughout an entire piece of writing (or a large section of it), elaborating throughout on the detailed and complex resemblance between the otherwise unlike things.
What is an extended metaphor?
300
This is a statement that contradicts itself, but is still in some sense true.
What is a paradox?
300
This is when the audience of a play (or the reader of story) sees or knows something that a character doesn't, giving the character's words or actions a meaning that is unknown to that character but is understood by the audience.
What is dramatic irony?
300
This is a type of verbal irony--saying something less extreme than what you mean.
What is understatement?
300
What terms that we've studied are shown in this example? May Zeus strike the maker of this test with his mighty thunderbolt, and send him to Hades.
What is allusion?
400
This is a pairing of two words with opposite meaning.
What is an oxymoron?
400
This is a reference to a well-known person, place, or event, or literary work.
What is an allusion?
400
This is when the quality that makes a character great, or that should lead them to greatness, instead leads to their downfall.
What is tragic irony?
400
This is when a normally harmless or inoffensive word is used in place of one that may be offensive or unpleasant.
What is a euphemism?
400
What terms that we've studied are shown in this example? As the conflict escalated, Mac threw an angry punch at Ollie.
What is a transferred epithet?
500
This is when the speaker of a poem is speaking to an object or an abstract idea as though it were a real person.
What is apostrophe?
500
This is when an adjective is used with a word with which it does not make literal sense (often the wrong word in the sentence).
What is a transferred epithet?
500
Which form(s) of irony is (are) shown in the following example: Juliet wakes in her tomb, expecting to find Romeo there, and indeed finds him there—dead! Yes, he’s dead, which the audience of the play knew already as she woke and spoke his name, and what’s worse, he killed himself out of his great love for her, the one thing that should have brought them together.
What are situational, dramatic, and tragic irony?
500
This is when a spoken phrase is meant to be interpreted two ways, the less obvious of which may be awkward, offensive, or sexually suggestive.
What is a double-entendre?
500
What terms that we've studied are shown in this example? This test hits me like a kick in the posterior.
What are simile and euphamism?
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