Syntax
Sound
Comparison & Exaggeration
Miscellaneous
Surprise Mix
100
What figure of speech refers to the use of repetition in sentence structure for poetic impact?
Parallelism
100
What is a figure of speech commonly used for the names of characters in classic cartoons? (Hint: Think Disney and Warner Bros.)
Alliteration
100
What is the figure of speech one uses when he calls his semi truck an "eighteen-wheeler?"
Synecdoche
100
What is the figure of speech in the following sentence? "He is a little giant."
Oxymoron
100
What figure of speech are you using whenever you utter the words: "I'm so hungry, I could eat a whole whale."
Hyperbole
200
What is the recurring figure of speech (related to syntax) in Dickens' opening line to A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, ..."
Anaphora
200
What term do we use to describe a common form of assonance in poetry?
Rhyme
200
What is the difference between simile and metaphor?
Similes use terms such as "like" or "as" to mark the comparison; metaphors do not.
200
What is the figure of speech that runs throughout the following verse? "I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago"
Paradox
200
What are the THREE figures of speech in the following sentence? "He buzzed like a bee."
Simile, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia
300
What is the figure of speech that refers to the A B B A sentence structure?
Antimetabole or chiasmus.
300
What figure of speech is the Wu-Tang Clan employing in the following line? "I bomb atomically – Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be droppin' these mockeries."
Assonance
300
What comparison figure of speech may rely on alliteration for part of its impact?
Simile
300
What is the main figure of speech that runs throughout the following verses? "Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
 said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
 "Our traveling habits have tired us. 
Can you give us a room with a view?" They arranged themselves at the window
 and counted the steps of the sun, 
and they both took root in the carpet
 where the topaz tortoises run.
Personification
300
What is another term for pun?
Double entendre
400
When Toni Morrison wrote, "Beloved is mine; she is Beloved," what figure of speech was she using?
Epanalepsis.
400
What is the difference between alliteration and consonance?
Alliteration uses the initial letters of a series of words to produce its impact; consonance may repeat consonant sounds in various positions of each word.
400
What is the difference between metonymy and synecdoche?
Synecdoche requires that a part of the whole must be used to substitute the whole. Metonymy only replaces one object with one that's intimately related.
400
What figure of speech are you using whenever you utter the words: "I can smell the burning pain."
Synesthesia
400
What is the special term for an apostrophe to a god or muse?
Invocation
500
What are two examples of anastrophe in the following verses? `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
 Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
 All mimsy were the borogoves,
 And the mome raths outgrabe.
 [...] He took his vorpal sword in hand:
 Long time the manxome foe he sought --
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All mimsy were the borogoves," "Long time the manxome foe he sought --"
500
What two figures of speech are used in the following line? "The scurrying furred small friars squeal in the dowse."
Alliteration and assonance
500
Which of the four poems we discussed is the BEST representation of an allegory?
Because I Could Not Stop for Death OR The Road Not Taken
500
What is the figure of speech in the following line: "He works his work, I mine."
Ellipsis
500
What term refers to the opposite of anaphora?
Epistrophe
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