the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose or emphasis or heightened effect.
- "I've told you a million times"
What is Hyperbole?
100
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses
-must we go, must we fight, must we follow in the footsteps of our ancestors, must we make the same mistakes.
What is Anaphora?
100
a polite expression used in place of words or phrases that otherwise might be considered harsh or unpleasant to hear.
- My father passed away.
What is Euphemism?
100
Repetition of an initial consonant sound.
-Carrie's cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.
What is Alliteration?
100
the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.
-A person who claims to be a vegan and avoids meat but will eat a slice of pepperoni pizza because they are hungry.
What is Irony?
200
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
- Many are called but few are chosen
What is Antithesis?
200
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
- Burning rage should ferment in a cave at the start of May.
What is Assonance?
200
A figure of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to another.
- the curtain of night, “all the world's a stage”)."
What is Metaphor?
200
a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect.
- "Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you"
What is Chiasmus?
200
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
- Knock knock. Who's there? Ring ring. Ring ring who? The phone.
What is Onomatopoeia?
300
A Statement that appears to contradict itself?
- You can save money by spending it.
What is Paradox?
300
A stated comparison between two dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
- They fought like cats and dogs.
What is Simile?
300
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
- She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.
What is Personification?
300
A figure of speech in which incongruous terms appear side by side.
- You're pretty ugly.
What is Oxymoron?
300
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, inanimate object, or nonexistent character
- "Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief." - Christopher Marlowe
What is Apostrophe?
400
A word or phrase that is used to stand in for another word.
- "The pen is mightier than the sword"
What is Metonymy?
400
" She only had a heart attack"
What is Understatement?
400
Play on words sometimes on different senses of the same word.
- An elephant’s opinion carries a lot of weight.
What is Pun?
400
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
- The ice cream was not too bad.
What is Litote?
400
- She ran like the wind
What is Simile?
500
-My grandmother is as old as a hill.
What is Hyperbole?
500
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee!
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”
What is Apostrophe?
500
"I'd rather be looked than overlooked." - Mae West.
What is Chiasmus?
500
“I find no peace, and all my war is done
I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice,
I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise.”
What is Oxymoron?
500
- “His eye met hers as she sat there paler and whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her.”