The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
What is a Metaphor?
100
A figure of speech in which a writer/speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less or serious than it is.
What is an Understatement?
100
The juxtaposition of contrasting idea in balanced phrases.
What is Antithesis?
100
Places a noun or phrase next to another noun for descriptive purposes
Ex: Mary, queen of the land, hosted the ball.
What is Appositive?
200
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
What is Personification?
200
A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
What is an Oxymoron?
200
A figure of speech is which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part , the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it.
What is Synecdoche?
200
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, inanimate object, or nonexistent character.
What is Apostrophe?
200
Uses words or phrases with a similar structure.
Ex: I went to the store, parked the car and bought a pizza.
What is Parallelism?
300
A stated comparison between two dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. ("like" or "as")
What is a Simile?
300
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
What is Metonymy?
300
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
What is Litotes?
300
The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
What is Euphemism?
300
A reference to an event, literary work or person.
Ex: I can’t do that because I am not Superman.
What is Allusion?
400
Repetition of an initial consonant sound.
What is Alliteration?
400
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
What is Anaphora?
400
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
What is Irony?
400
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
What is a Hyperbole?
400
Compares two different things that have some similar characteristics.
Ex: He is flaky as a snowstorm
What is Analogy?
500
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
What is Assonance?
500
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
What is Chiasmus?
500
A statement that appears to contradict itselfs.
What is a Paradox?
500
Play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word, sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different.
What is a Pun?
500
Corrects or qualifies a statement.
Ex: You are the most beautiful woman in this town, nay the entire world.