lesson 3

Question 1

• an expression of language, by which the
  usual or literal meaning of a word is not
  employed

Answer 1

Figures of Speech

Question 2

A. Figures of speech according to sounds

Answer 2

Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Refrain

Question 3

The repetition of an initial consonant sound in a row

Answer 3

Alliteration

Question 4

“Walter wondered where Winnie
was”

Answer 4

Alliteration

Question 5

Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.

Answer 5

Assonance

Question 6

“Uncertain rustling of each purple
curtain”

Answer 6

Assonance

Question 7

The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

Answer 7

Onomatopoeia

Question 8

“The bees buzzed in the garden”

Answer 8

Onomatopoeia

Question 9

• refers to repetitive sounds produced by final consonants within a sentence or phrase

Answer 9

Consonance

Question 10

“He struck a streak of bad luck”

Answer 10

Consonance

Question 11

is the simple repetition of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, in order to secure
emphasis

Answer 11

REPETITION

Question 12

“Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn…”

Answer 12

REPETITION

Question 13

a phrase, verse, or verses repeated at
intervals in a song or poem, as after each
stanza

Answer 13

Refrain

Question 14

is the line or lines that are repeated in
music or in verse; the “chorus” of a song

Answer 14

Refrain

Question 15

“There lived a lady by the North Sea shore, Lay the bent to the bonny broom Two daughters were the babes she bore. Fa la la la la la la la la.”

Answer 15

Refrain

Question 16

Figures of speech according to comparison

Answer 16

Simile
Metaphor

Question 17

A stated comparison (usually formed with “like” or “as”) between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.

Answer 17

Simile

Question 18

“His kisses were sweet like wine.”

Answer 18

Simile

Question 19

An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.

Answer 19

Metaphor

Question 20

“All the world is a stage.”

Answer 20

Metaphor

Question 21

Figures of speech according to substitution

Answer 21

Personification
Apostrophe
Allusion
Hyperbole
Synecdoche
Litotes
Polysendeton

Question 22

Addresses inanimate or abstract ideas as if human

Answer 22

Apostrophe

Question 23

“Roll on ocean, roll on!”

Answer 23

Apostrophe

Question 24

A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.

Answer 24

Personification

Question 25

"The tornado ran through the town without a care."

Answer 25

Personification

Question 26

A figure of speech consisting of an  understatement in which an affirmative is  expressed by negating its opposite.

Answer 26

litotes

Question 27

"You are not wrong."

Answer 27

litotes

Question 28

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole

Answer 28

Synecdoche

Question 29

"Hey, I could use an extra pair of hands over here! "

Answer 29

Synecdoche

Question 30

An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated  terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened  effect.

Answer 30

Hyperbole

Question 31

"I will love you until the oceans all dry up."

Answer 31

Hyperbole

Question 32

The overuse of conjunctions in close  succession helps achieve rhythm,  mainly by introducing continuation and  slowing it.

Answer 32

POLYSYNDETON

Question 33

"If there be cords, or knives, poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, I'll not endure it."

Answer 33

POLYSYNDETON

Question 34

- is a figure of speech, or hint, that makes  a reference to, or a representation of  people, places, events, literary work,  myths, or works of art either directly or  by implication.

Answer 34

allusion