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A figure of speech that gives human qualities or attributes to non-human or inanimate object.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Synecdoche
It involves a deliberate exaggeration used for effect.
Metonymy
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Paradox
It is a direct address to someone absent, long dead, or even to an inanimate objects or ideas.
Apostrophe
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
What kind of Figure of Speech is:
Jose Rizal, where are the youth today?
Litotes
Apostrophe
Paradox
Irony
What is the figure of speech used in the line "She is no fool."?
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Litotes
Chiasmus
Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:
The water angrily flowed towards the sea.
Alliteration
Assonance
Hyperbole
Personification
Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:
I am so hungry I can eat a mountain.
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Personification
Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:
The gushing wind blew through the trees.
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Personification
Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:
That person runs like a road-runner.
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Personification
1. The man fights like a lion on the soccer field.
a. metaphor
b. simile
c. irony
d. personification
2. She is as sweet as her grandmother.
a. metaphor
b. personification
c. simile
d. alliteration
3. We will swear loyalty to the crown.
a. paradox
b. irony
c. personification
d. metonymy
4. Time is money.
a. metaphor
b. simile
c. personification
d. hyperbole
5. "Peter Piper picked a peck of picked pepper."
a. vision
b. alliteration
c. lilotes
d. synecdoche
6. The wind whispered softly in the night.
a. metaphor
b. irony
c. personification
d. hyperbole
7. "Men work together whether they work together or apart."
a. oxymoron
b. paradox
c. hyperbole
d. metaphor
8. The corn went "pop-pop" in the microwave.
a. alliteration
b. onomatopoeia
c. euphemism
d. personification
9. I have told you a billion times not to lie!
a. hyperbole
b. irony
c. paradox
d. oxymoron
10. “The squirrels' nuts were hidden in several hollow trees throughout the forest.”
a. vision
b. apostrophe
c. alliteration
d. personification
11. Stating during a thunderstorm, “beautiful weather we're having!”
a. hyperbole
b. irony
c. oxymoron
d. paradox
12. She's not sick; she's “under the weather.”
a. paradox
b. euphemism
c. irony
d. hyperbole
13. He eats the sweet treats.
a. anaphora
b. assonance
c. alliteration
d. repetition
14. Why not waste a wild weekend at Westmore Water Park?
a. connotation
b. repetition
c. alliteration
d. allegory
15. Tension builds in a horror movie as a young girl approaches a closed door.
a. paradox
b. allegory
c. anticlimax
d. allusion
2. Dina heard the wind whispering her.
a. simile
b. hyperbole
c. personification
d. vision
3. Kisses are the flowers of affection.
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. metonymy
4. A man swallowed the crocodile.
a. synecdoche
b. apostrophe
c. hyperbole
d. lilotes
5. The corn went pop-pop in the microwave.
a. onomatopoeia
b. oxymoron
c. irony
d. alliteration
6. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper."
a. oxymoron
b. alliteration
c. onomatopoeia
d. simile
7. "The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot."
a. metonymy
b. litotes
c. metaphor
d. paradox
Match the following poetic devices and examples of figurative language
"He learned to walk while I was away..." | Alliteration | ||
"Old Soul" | Simile | ||
"I'm gonna be like you dad, you know I'm gonna be like you..." | Metaphor | ||
"...her hair flapping like a handkerchief waving goodbye ..." | Repetition | ||
"...my stupid clown-sweater arms." | Idiom |
"It's hanging all over the edge like a waterfall ..."
This is an example of ...
Alliteration
Rhyme
Simile
Metaphor
In "The Rose that Grew from Concrete" the rose represented ...
A garden
A person
A rose
Valentine's Day
Shrek would argue that Ogres are like onions because they ...
... have layers.
... smell bad.
... make people cry.
... are good for you.
As a result, I stood there like a bump on a log as they surrounded me.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
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