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Snap, Crackle, and Pop
What is onomatopoeia (written sound)
100
She is as pretty as a flower.
What is Simile
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"I don’t want to live on in my work. I want to live on in my apartment." - Woody Allen
What is parallelism (repeated syllable structure, parts of speech, or sound)
100
Bottom's line: "...the flowers of odious savors sweet--" instead of 'odorous' is an example of an unintentional one of these...
What is malapropism/pun (unintentional pun)
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pretty ugly
What is oxymoron (two words with opposite meanings)
200
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers...
What is alliteration (same beginning sounds)
200
No one should use this particular device because not one person in a million can use it correctly.
What is hyperbole (exaggeration)
200
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,..."- Charles Dickens
What is Antithesis (contrasting ideas in balanced phrases)
200
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" Spoken to the wall in Robert Frost's Mending Wall
What is apostrophe (speaking to the inanimate or someone that is absent)
200
Police were called to a day care center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
What is pun (play on words that sound the same)
300
The sweet creature sleeps
What is assonance (repeated vowel sound)
300
England last won the World Cup in 1966.
What is Synecdoche (the part represents the whole)
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"extravagant and erring," "foul and pestilent" --notice that they are similes
What is double epithet (two words of identical meaning put together)
300
My life ran down my arm and formed a red pool at my feet.
What is Metonymy (a metaphor between two closely related things)
300
I am nobody
What is paradox (two ideas with opposite meanings)
400
William did not care for firing squad's phrase, "Fire at Will."
What is pun (a play on the sound of a word or words)
400
The wind whistles and moans through the trees in the yard.
What is personification
400
Wall Street-- 1) A street in NYC; 2) Wealth
What is connotation (a word can have a literal meaning and a suggestive meaning)
400
"In There's Something About Mary (1998), [when] Ted thinks he's been arrested for picking up a hitchhiker while the audience knows he's being questioned by police about a murder, otherwise innocuous lines he delivers, such as 'I've done it several times before' and 'It's no big deal,' generate laughter."
What is dramatic irony (the audience is in the know, but the actor is not)
400
A dying man says, "Tomorrow you will find me a grave man."
What is Word Play/Pun (a serious pun; not intended to be funny)
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"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it." Jesse Jackson
What is parallelism (repeated syllables, parts of speech, or sound)
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All the world's a stage/ And all the men and women merely players.
What is metaphor
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What secrets lie behind her Mona Lisa smile?
What is allusion (reference to classical art, literature, or the Bible)
500
A bear is the narrator of the story.
What is anthropomorphism (personification of animals)
500
Instead of vomit, using "Yodeling groceries," or "making a floor pizza."
What is euphemism (the substitution of an inoffensive term for a harsh term)