1st Level
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind (using like or as)
What is a simile?
Giving human characteristics to an object, animal, thing or idea.
What is personification?
Passing reference to a well known person, place or event
What is allusion?
Common phrase with figurative meaning
What is an idiom?
referring to a person, group, or concept by a related object or a related part or feature
What is a synecdoche/ metonymy?
A figure of speech that compares two different things by stating that one is the other
What is a metaphor?
Something that has a literal meaning, but suggests or represents other things.
What is symbolism?
What is anaphora?
Recurrence of similar sounding consonants in close proximity
What is Consonance
Parallel clause structure But in reverse order for the second part (repeated in reverse order)
What is chiasmus?
A word or a phrase appearing multiple times
What is a repetition?
Visually descriptive language which paints an image in a reader’s mind
What is imagery?
Story with a second implicit meaning
What is an allegory?
A literary device involving the repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds in nearby words
What is assonance?
the removal of conjunctions where it might’ve been expected
what is asyndeton?
The occurrence of the same latter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words
What is alliteration?
Extreme exaggeration for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
Asking a question and not expecting an answer
What is a rhetorical question?
The asking of a question and immediately answering it
What is a hypophora?
presenting a dismissed view of the importance, significance, or magnitude of a subject
what is meiosis / understatement?
A word that imitates to sounds like the sound that it describes
What is Onomatopoeia?
Using informal, conversational, or regional speech — such as slang
What is colloquial language?
the figure of speech in which a speaker uses words that intend to express a meaning that is the direct opposite of those words
What is irony?
the use of more conjunctions than strictly needed
What is polysyndeton?
the linking of two or more words or phrases that occupy the same position in a sentence to another word or phrase in the same sentence. Ex. He caught the train and a bad cold
What is zeugma?