style figures unit 2

Question 1

dramatic irony

Answer 1

when the reader or audience knows something the characters do not

Question 2

analogy

Answer 2

a comparison of similarities between things which are otherwise unlike
(“life is like a box of chocolates”)

Question 3

soliloquy

Answer 3

a speech that one gives to oneself. In a play, a character delivering a soliloquy talks to herself - thinking out loud, as it were- so that the audience better understands what is happening to the character internally.

Question 4

hyperbole

Answer 4

use of exaggeration to enhance a point (“I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”)

Question 5

oxymoron

Answer 5

two words that contradict each other, placed beside each other (awfully good, black snow)

Question 6

personification

Answer 6

attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form (“The flowers danced to the wind. The sun smiled down on us.”)