This is a word or phrase used figuratively to express a particular meaning understood by a common group of people.
What is an idiom?
100
This is an expression that uses contrasting images.
What is oxymoron?
100
This is language that describes something in detail and which appeals to one’s senses
What is imagery?
100
This is a form of extended metaphor, in which all of the elements of the story have meanings that lie outside the narrative itself.
What is allegory?
100
This is a statement that appears to be contradictory, but contains or reveals a degree of truth.
What is paradox?
200
This a substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensive.
What is a euphemism?
200
This is the substitution of an abstract or suggestive word for another, usually concrete, term.
What is metonymy?
200
This is a short reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work.
What is an allusion?
200
This is a figure of speech in which the actual intent of a word or phrase is the exact opposite of its literal meaning
What is irony?
200
This is an interruption during a discussion in which the speaker directly addresses a person or personified thing
What is apostrophe?
300
This is an exaggeration or intentional overstatement that is most often used for emphasis or rhetorical effect.
What is a hyperbole?
300
This is a kind of metonymy in which something is used for the whole.
What is synecdoche?
300
This is an explicit comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
300
This is irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity
What is satire?
300
This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
400
This is is a figure of speech in which an author deliberately makes something seem less important or serious than it truly is, either for ironic emphasis or for politeness and tact.
What is an understatement?
400
This is a rhetorical technique in which words, phrases, or ideas are intentionally contrasted, usually through the use of parallel structure.
What is antithesis?
400
This is a direct comparison between two seemingly unlike things in terms of hidden or subtle qualities common to each.
What is a metaphor?
400
This is a comparison between two things which are alike in several respects.
What is analogy?
400
This is the attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, satirical, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective.
What is tone?
500
This is a particular form of understatement used by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which would otherwise be used.
What are litotes?
500
This is Asking a question not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something. It is used for effect, emphasis, or provocation, or for drawing a conclusion from the facts at hand.
What is rhetorical question?
500
This is a figure of speech in which an animal or inanimate object is endowed with human qualities or is represented as possessing human form.
What is personification?
500
This occurs when an object or image is used to represent another idea.
What is symbolism?
500
This is defined as:
The appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true.