figures of speech

Question 1

is used by writers to produce images in readers’ minds and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways

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Figurative Language

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refers to the color we use to amplify our writing

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Figurative Language

Question 3

is a way to engage your readers, ushering them through your writing with a more creative tone

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Figurative Language

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a comparison is between two objects of different kinds which have. However, one point in common

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Simile

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comparison is intended to make a description more emphatic or vivid for effective communication

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Simile

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usually introduced be words as like, as or so

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Simile

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She’s as sly like a fox

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Simile

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The train crawls like a snake

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Simile

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word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show that they are similar

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Metaphor

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an implied simile

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Metaphor

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takes that for granted and proceeds as if the two things were one

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Metaphor

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a word or phrase is applied to an object or action, though it is not literally applicable

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Metaphor

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Time is a thief.

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Personification

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when an attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic is used to describe something nonhuman

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Personification

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The nonhuman objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings

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Personification

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The sky weeps

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Personification

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Time and tide wait for none.

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Personification

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figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis

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Hyperbole

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an exaggerated statement or claim that is not meant to be taken literally

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Hyperbole

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device that we employ in our daytoday speech

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Hyperbole

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I am trying to solve a million issues these days

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Hyperbole

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Hyperbole derived from a ? word meaning ?

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Greek “overcasting”

Question 23

occurs when a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience and directs speech to a 3rd party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes absent from the scene. Often the addressee is a personified abstract quality or inanimate object

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Apostrophe

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exclamatory figure of speech

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Apostrophe

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Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief.

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Apostrophe

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words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words

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Irony

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may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated

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Irony

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difference between appearance and reality

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Irony

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A fire station burns down

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Irony

Question 30

A marriage counselor files for divorce

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Irony

Question 31

The repetition of an initial consonant sound

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Alliteration

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But a better butter makes a batter better

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Alliteration

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Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words

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Assonance

Question 34

Hear the mellow wedding bells

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Assonance

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polite, indirect expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite, or which suggest something unpleasant

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Euphemism

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idiomatic expression, which loses its literal meanings and refers to something else, in order to hide its unpleasantness

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Euphemism

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We do not hire mentally challenged (stupid) people

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Euphemism

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figure of speech that is defined as the use of disparaging or offensive expressions instead of inoffensive ones

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Dysphemism

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use of negative expressions instead of positive ones

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Dysphemism

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speaker uses them to humiliate or degrade the disapproved person or character

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Dysphemism

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Fag for homosexual man

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Dysphemism

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Bullshit for lies

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Dysphemism

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Dysphemism originated from the ?, means ? And ?, which means ?

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Greek word dys (miss or none) ; pheme (reputation or speech)

Question 44

uses a phrase or statement that on surface seems contradictor, but makes some kind of emotional sense

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Paradox

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This is the beginning of the end

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Paradox

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This is the most famous of all logical paradoxes, because it’s so simple

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This statement is a lie.

Question 47

puts together in one statement two contradictory terms

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Oxymoron

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That’s my adult child. Poor thing still can’t get himself into the real adult.

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Oxymoron

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refers to a word that phonetically mimics or resembles the sound of the thing it describes

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Onomatopoeia

Question 50

the words we use to describe the noises that animals make

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Onomatopoeia

Question 51

to make indirect reference

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Allusion

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figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words

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Allusion

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“It is raining so hard, I hope it doesn’t rain for 40 days and 40 nights.”

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Allusion

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type of literature that uses the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words to describe the world in striking imaginative ways

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POETRY

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Poetry is divided into ?

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lines

Question 56

groups of words

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lines

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Lines are organized in units of meaning called

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stanza

Question 58

A blank line, called a ?, signals that one stanza has ended and a new stanza is beginning

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stanza break

Question 59

repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words

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Rhyme

Question 60

when rhymes follow a particular pattern

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Rhyme Scheme