It is a name of a thing or action that sound like it's meaning, or mimic sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
It is giving inanimate objects, animals, or ideas human charecteristics.
What is personification?
100
It is a comparison of two things using "like" and "as".
What is a simile?
100
It is a statement that does not mak sense literally.
What is a metaphor?
100
It is a repitition of the first constant letter in several words.
What is alliteration?
200
It is an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point.
What is a hyperbole?
200
It is a group of words whose meaning is different from ordinary words.
For example: Break the ice
Going bananas
What is an idiom?
200
It is language that has lost its freshness and may appeal to be overused.
For example:Happy Birthday
I second that motion
What is cliche?
200
It is an object, word, or image that has deeper significance than just its literal meaning.
For example: Colors
Weather
What is a symbol?
200
It is descriptive language that appeals to the audience's senses.
For example: Melted away, like cotton candy
Looked amzazing
What is imagery?
300
It is a statement that appears self-contradictory but in reality expresses a possible truth.
What is a paradox?
300
It is a language that uses words or expressions that has a meaning different from the literal definition.
What is figurative language?
300
It is the use of words to portrait the opposite of their literal meaning. The meaning is contradicted by the appearance of the idea.
What is irony?
300
It is a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear side by side.
What is oxymoron?
300
It is a figure of speech in which the narrator purposely makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
What is an understatement?
400
It is a figure of speech in which one word of phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, or the strategy og decribing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
What is a metonym?
400
It is a figure of speech in which part is used to represent the whole?
For example: ABC's represents alphabet.
What is a synechoche?
400
It is a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
What is liotes?
400
It is the repition of one word or phrase and the beginning of verses.
What is an anaphora?
500
It is breaking off discourse to address some absent person, inanimate object, or abstract quality.
What is apostrophe?
500
It is similarity in sounds between internal vowels in neighboring words.
What is assonance?
500
It is a verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced out by the first as the parts are veresed.
What is chiasmus?
500
The substitution of an inoffensive for one considered offensivley explicit.
What euphemism?
500
It is a play on words sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense of sound of different words.