Definition
Examples 1
Comparisons
Example 2
Miscellaneous
100
A comparison that is expressed by the use of word or phrase like as, like, than, similar to, resembles, or seems.
Simile
100
The tree limbs looked like they were arms.
Simile!
100
Similes and _____ both are used to compare unlike things.
Metaphors
100
Her tower was a prison.
Metaphor. And I found Rapunzel. Score.
100
Which of these comparisons use like or as? a) Simile b) Metaphor c) Stop lying, neither of these are comparisons. 2nd grade has deceived you.
a) Simile. :) Your 2nd grade teacher did well.
200
The giving of the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept.
Personification
200
The dryer thrashed and roared in my basement while it dried my defenseless clothes.
Personification. Otherwise you have a strange dryer.
200
Figurative language- language using ______.
Figures of speech
200
She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.
Personification. Hopefully no one ever names their kid that.
200
Comparison isn't expressed for ____ but is created when a figurative term is substituted for a literal term.
Metaphor
300
The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant.
Metonymy.. (Try saying that 5 fives in a row.)
300
"Is this a dagger that I see before me, The handle towards my hand? Come, let me clutch thee!" -Act 2, Scene 1 of "Macbeth" by Shakespeare
Apostrophe. No floating dagger for you, Macbeth.
300
Metonymy and ____ both substitute a significant detail of experience for experience itself.
Synecdoche
300
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.” -Shakespeare’s “Julies Caesar” Act I.
Metonymy. Although synecdoche may work. But foremost Metonymy. Either way, no one wants your stupid ears.
300
What is a way of saying something other than the ordinary way?
Figure of speech
400
The addressing of someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person was present and alive and could reply to what was being said.
Apostrophe
400
"All hands on deck!"
Synecdoche, you filthy pirates.
400
Personification and _____ are both ways of giving life and immediacy to one's language-neither requires great imaginative power to the poet.
Apostrophe
400
Please put your John Hancock on this.
Synecdoche. You don't have a John Hancock, because he's dead. And all signatures can be called a John Hancock. Even though they aren't. Hence the synecdoche.
400
Which of these apply to ONLY inanimate objects? a) Simile b) Personification c) Synecdoche d) None of the above
d) None of the above... Similes are comparisons and are not restricted to inanimate objects. Personification is the giving of the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept. Synecdoche is the use of a part for a whole, and not restricted to inanimate objects.
500
The use of part for a whole.
Synecdoche
500
The White House supports the bill.
Metonymy. *place political joke here, Daniel.*
500
Contrasting to the figures that compare unlike things, Synecdoche and ______ rest on congruence or correspondence.
Metonymy
500
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are."
Apostrophe. Up above the world so high...
500
____ cannot be taken literally or only literally.
Figurative language
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