Figures of Speech Flashcards
What is a pathetic fallacy?
Using the weather/nature to create mood atmosphere
What is a rhetorical question?
Asking a questions that doesn’t require an answer
but is used to make the reader think
What figure of speech is being used?
She climbs like a monkey.
simlie
What figure of speech is being used?
The approaching car’s headlights winked at me.
Hyperbole
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two things together by saying one thing is another
What figure of speech is being used?
I heard the door ‘ding-a-ling’ and groaned as I knew exactly who it was.
Onomatopoeia
Whaat is Onomatopoeia?
Using the word that describes the sound
What figure of speech is being used?
That guy is as nutty as a fruitcake.
Simlie
What is a personification?
Giving non-human things human features/qualities
What figure of speech is being used?
My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
Personification
Can you name the 5 categories of figures of speech?
In any order 1. Figures of emphasis or understatement 2. Verbal games and gymnastics 3. figures of resemblance or relationship 4. Errors 5.
What figure of speech is being used?
People have robbed the robbers
Situational Irony
What is an idiom?
A common phrase that has a well known meaning
What figure of speech is being used?
‘During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country.’
Pathetic Fallacy
What is a simile?
Comparing two things together using the phrases ‘like’ or ‘as’
Name the 3 types of irony
- Verbal
- Situational
- Dramatic
What is an oxymoron?
Two words that contradict each other
What figure of speech is being used?
BANG
onomatopoeia
What is dramatic Irony?
When the audience of a dramatic piece knows something that a character doesn’t.
What figure of speech is being used?
‘Oh wow the river is so fresh!’ ( to a river that is full of rubbish).
Verbal Irony
What figure of speech is being used?
Bitter sweet
oxymoron
What is Verbal Irony ?
When a speaker says something contrary to what they really mean.
What is hyperbole?
Using exaggeration to make a point
What figure of speech is being used?
He’s running faster than the wind.
Hyperbole
