The Basics
For 200 points.
Identify what figure of speech is being used here?
"Her arms were waves as she guided it gracefully throughout her performance."
Metaphor
200
John F. Kennedy (Inaugural Address, 1961)
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
Chiasmus
300 points. True or false.
"Pen is mightier than a sword."
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."
The first statement is the only example of metonymy
False. Both are actually examples of metonymy.
100 points.
"Unfortunately, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time on the wrong day."
anaphora
for 100
"Buzzing of the bees" and "swooshing gust of wind" are examples of ______.
Onomatopoeia
"Oh honey, did you fly too close to the sun? No wonder your fame melted quickly?"
What figure of speech is being used in this sentence?
Allusion
100 points. True or false.
"He ate a cold hot dog for breakfast."
This is not an oxymoron.
True. This is in fact not an oxymoron.
200 points.
"Dude, if you and Narcissus were in a fight for the egomaniac trophy, you still would have beaten him easily."
What kind figure of speech is being used in this sentence?
Allusion
for 200.
"The way the bamboos danced along the wind is somehow mesmerizing and uncanny at the same time."
Personification
100
"I know one thing; that I know nothing."
-Socrates
This is an example of _____.
Paradox
200 points. True of False.
"She looks just like her mother."
This sentence is an example of a Simile.
False. This is simply a literal comparison rather than using a figurative language.
300
Scenario: I heard my brother asking his girlfriend's parents. Apparently, he is asking for her hand in marriage.
What figures of speech is used in this scenario?
synecdoche
200
what is the difference between Alliteration and Assonance?
ALLITERATION – the repetition of an initial consonant sound.
ASSONANCE - identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
100
"Oh, I love spending big bucks," said my dad, a notorious penny pincher.
Irony
100 points.
A thousand Miles by Christina Perri
If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
Oh 'cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight
Hyperbole
Bonus Perk: +100
Which line is a giveaway for this to be Hyperbole?
400 points
TikTok nowadays doesn't let you use words that may be associated with explicit themes. Some words such as "kill" is being replaced as "unalive", "Gun/weapons" to "pew pew", and "pedophile" for "PDF file".
Euphemism