Resemblance & Relationship
What figure of speech compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
Simile
Hyperbole is meant to be taken literally.
Answer: False
"The White House announced new policies." is an example of _________.
Answer: Metonymy
"Knowledge is power." is an example of ________.
Answer: Aphorism
What sound device is featured in this sentence? "The bacon sizzled and popped in the hot pan."
Answer: Onomatopoeia
Which sentence does NOT contain personification?
Answer: D
Which figure of speech combines contradictory words?
Example: "Living dead"
Answer: Oxymoron
"All ________ on deck!"
What word completes this famous example of synecdoche?
Answer: hands
Which is NOT a proverb?
Answer: Knowledge is power
In the phrase "wild and woolly walrus," repeating the opening /w/ sound creates this rhythmic effect.
Answer: Alliteration
A student says:
"The classroom was a zoo." is a simile.
Is the statement Correct or Incorrect?
Answer: Incorrect (It is a metaphor.)
Which sentence best illustrates irony?
A. A chef cooks dinner.
B. A pilot flies a plane.
C. A police station is robbed.
D. A teacher gives homework.
Answer: C
Which figure of speech replaces an unpleasant expression with a milder one?
Answer: Euphemism
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" serves as a guiding moral principle or rule of conduct, known as what?
Answer: Maxim
Phrases like "blank and think" or "strong and string" share matching ending consonant sounds without rhyming their vowels, which is called this.
Answer: Consonance
While both draw comparisons, a simile differs from a metaphor because it explicitly relies on these two connection words.
Answer: like or as
Neil Armstrong said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Placing contrasting ideas in parallel grammatical structures creates this figure.
Answer: Antithesis
"A sleepless night."
The adjective is transferred from the person to the night.
This is called __________.
Answer: Transferred Epithet
"Better late than never" is a well-known traditional phrase accepted as true through long, collective human experience. What device is used?
Answer: Adage
Identify the two sound devices.
Buzz! The busy bees buzzed around the blossoms.
Answer:
The sentence below contains two figures of speech. Name both.
"O Time, you are a thief."
Answer: Apostrophe and Metaphor
"I can resist anything except temptation" (Oscar Wilde) sounds contradictory at first, but reveals a deeper truth about human weakness when analyzed. What device is used?
Answer: Paradox
"She walked through the angry storm." Because the storm itself isn't literally feeling anger—the person walking through it is—the adjective has been shifted, creating this device.
Answer: Transferred Epithet?
Oscar Wilde's clever quote, "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying," delivers a surprising twist using this brief device.
Answer: Epigram
Identify THREE sound devices:
"She sells seashells by the seashore while waves splash softly."
Answer: