Figures Of Speech

Question 1

Personification

Answer 1

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

Question 2

Onomatopoeia

Answer 2

Uses words that imitate sounds and reproduce real life sounds and actions. Sound effects heightens visual effect.

Question 3

Hyperbole

Answer 3

An over-exaggeration, not meant to be taken literally. It aims to create humor or emphasize a point.

Question 4

Cliche

Answer 4

Overused words of expressions

Question 5

Euphemism

Answer 5

Expresses an unpleasant or uncomfortable situation in a more sensitive, kind and tactful manner. Purpose is to soften and blow, protect feelings or to be politically correct.

Question 6

Pun

Answer 6

Clever play on words

Question 7

Irony

Answer 7

Implies the opposite of what is said

Question 8

Euphemism

Answer 8

A tactful way of saying something so that it does cause hurt or offense

Question 9

Innuendo

Answer 9

Conveying a meaning by suggestion

Question 10

Oxymoron

Answer 10

Where two words of opposite or contradictory meaning are deliberately juxtaposed

Question 11

Allusion

Answer 11

Making direct or indirect references to well-known texts such as The Bible etc.