Figurative Language

Question 1

What is a methaphore ?

Answer 1

Direct comparaison

Question 2

What is a simile?

Answer 2

Comparaison with like, as or than

Question 3

What is an allegory ?

Answer 3

Poem with hidden meaning. Convey a deeper message with symbols, characters and setting. Make sense on primary and secondary level.

Question 4

What is a metonymy?

Answer 4

A thing that is attributed to another thing but aren’t related. Are associated.

Question 5

What is a synechtochy?

Answer 5

A part that signifies a whole, a whole that signifies a part.

Question 6

What is a symbole?

Answer 6

Anything that signify something else.

Question 7

What is an assonance?

Answer 7

Sound pattern with vowels.

Question 8

What is a consonance?

Answer 8

Sound pattern with consonance.

Question 9

What is a Anacoluthon?

Answer 9

When the syntax is very ungrammatical.

Question 10

What is a Aposiopesis?

Answer 10

A shock moment, the narrator becomes silent.

Question 11

What is an Atanaclasis?

Answer 11

Type of pun that uses the word twice.

Question 12

What is a syllepsis?

Answer 12

One word =two meanings depending on the word it connects to.

Question 13

What is a paronomasia?

Answer 13

Similarity of sound.

Question 14

What is a Neologism?

Answer 14

New or invented word.

Question 15

What is a personnification?

Answer 15

Object or abstract concept being alive as a character.

Question 16

What is a pathetic fallacy?

Answer 16

Object or concept given human atributes.

Question 17

What is verbal irony?

Answer 17

Sarcasm.

Question 18

What is structural irony?

Answer 18

The character is not aware of what is going on around them but we do.

Question 19

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 19

We know something the character doesn’t. Says something that anticipate his faith but not in the way we know it.

Question 20

What is cosmic irony?

Answer 20

The character has false hope and is being manipulated to frustrate him or mock him.

Question 21

What is a paradox?

Answer 21

Statement that seem impossible but reveals a deeper truth.

Question 22

What is an oxymore?

Answer 22

Two terms joined together but are opposite. Contradictory words put together.

Question 23

What is parallelism?

Answer 23

Balance within one or more sentenced or similar phrases - have the same grammatical structure.

Question 24

What is an Antithesis?

Answer 24

Contrasting or combining two terms phrases with opposing meanings.

Question 25

What is a Chiasmus.

Answer 25

Repetition of any group of words. Reversed to create emphasis. ABBA pattern.

Question 26

What is an Antimetabole?

Answer 26

Exact words but reversed.

Question 27

What is a iteration?

Answer 27

Simple repetition of a single word.

Question 28

What is an anaphora?

Answer 28

Repetition of words at the beginning on a verse.

Question 29

What is an epistrophe ?

Answer 29

Repetition at the end of the verse.

Question 30

What is an epithet?

Answer 30

Term accompanying the name of a real person, place or things and are closely associated.

Question 31

What is a Circumlocation.

Answer 31

Way of talking about something without really talking about that thing.

Question 32

What is a congerie?

Answer 32

Listing words to emphasize a point.

Question 33

What is a polysyndeton?

Answer 33

Repetition of conjunction.

Question 34

What is an Asyndethon.

Answer 34

Omission of conjunction.

Question 35

What is an apostrophe?

Answer 35

Address to a dead or absent person as if they were there.

Question 36

What is an invocation?

Answer 36

Address to a god or a muse to ask for inspiration or help. Happens at the beginning. Type of apostrophe.

Question 37

What is a rhetorical question?

Answer 37

Question without answer.

Question 38

What is an exclamation?

Answer 38

Cry of emotion - interruption.

Question 39

What is a command?

Answer 39

Direct order, a blessing or a curse.

Question 40

What is an anastrophe?

Answer 40

How yoda speaks and is a syntactic deviation.

Question 41

What is a metaphysical conceit?

Answer 41

Extended metaphor that makes surprising far-fetched comparisons between two very different things.

Question 42

What are the two parts of the metaphor?

Answer 42

Tenor - what the person means Vehicle - the way they express it.