Figures of speech Flashcards
1
Q
what is a simile?
A
a comparison of 2 nouns using like or as
2
Q
what is a metaphor?
A
a comparison of 2 nouns saying that one thing IS another
3
Q
what is an idiom?
A
- an expression that is like its saying
- ex: easy as pie
4
Q
what is a hyperbole?
A
an extreme exaggeration
5
Q
what is personification?
A
when a non-living object is given human qualities
6
Q
what is metonymy?
A
is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else
7
Q
what is synecdoche?
A
refers to a thing by the name of one of its parts
8
Q
what is otomatopeoa?
A
sounds in a story like “clack”
9
Q
what is a meter? when does it occur?
A
- a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that occur when a poem is arranged in a repeating pattern
10
Q
what is a foot?
A
a foot can have 2 or 3 syllables
11
Q
what are the 5 types of feet?
A
- Iambic ( ^/^/^/)
- Trochee (/^/^/^)
- Anapestic (^^/^^/^^/)
- Dactyl (/^^/^^/^^)
- Spondee
12
Q
what are the number of feet in a line?
A
- Monometer: 1 foot
- Dimeter: 2 feet
- Trimeter: 3 feet
- Tetremeter: 4 feet
- Pentameter: 5 feet
- Hexameter: 6 feet
- Heptameter: 7 feet
- Octameter: 8 feet
13
Q
what is free indirect discourse?
A
- its a style or third person narration that takes on some characteristics of first-person narration
- full of run on sentences
- allows narrator to move back and forth from 1 character to another
