Figurative Language PRACTICE Five miles meandering with mazy

Figurative Language PRACTICE

“Five miles meandering with mazy motion” is an example of which device?

Alliteration

“Hum, buzz, clang, boom, hiss, ” and “crack” are examples of which device?

Onomatopoeia

“However, then, next, therefore, in conclusion, ” and “similarly” are words that would probably be used as ______

Transitions

A(n) ______ is a short, informal reference to a famous person or event. The best sources for _______ are literature, history, Greek myth, and the Bible.

Allusion

“The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. ” – Joshua Reynolds This is an example of which device?

Metaphor

Obvious, extravagant exaggeration or overstatement, not intended to be taken literally, but used figuratively to create humor or emphasis.

Hyperbole

The making of “pictures in words, ” the pictorial quality of a literary work achieved through a collection of images.

Imagery

“Language that contains figures of speech, such as metaphor, simile, personification, and hyperbole, expressions that make comparisons or associations meant to be interpreted imaginatively rather than literally. ” What is this a definition for?

Figurative Language

Similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants.

Assonance (sheer, peel, steam)

“The ship began to creak and protest as it struggled against the rising sea. ” This is an example of which device?

Personification

“There a thousand reasons why more research is needed on solar energy” This is an example of which device?

Hyperbole

“Ping pong” “tip top” and “flim flam” are examples of which device?

Consonance

“After two hours of political platitudes, everyone grew bored. The delegates were bored; the guests were bored; the speaker himself was bored. Even the chairs were bored. ” This is an example of which device?

Personification

A Greek word meaning “acutely silly, ” ______ names a figure of speech that combines contradictions. It is also a paradox reduced to two words. Name the device

Oxymoron

“We bought this house instead of the on Maple because this one is more friendly” This sentence contains the device ________

Personification

“The 1906 San Francisco earthquake interrupted business somewhat in the downtown area” Considering the fact that the 1906 earthquake was actually extremely destructive, this sentence is an example of which device?

Understatement

“After such long exposure to the direct sun, the leaves of the houseplant looked like pieces of overcooked bacon. ” This is an example of which device?

Simile

_____ compares two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one…_______ serves the more practical end of explaining a thought process or a line of reasoning or the abstract in terms of the concrete, and may therefore be more extended.

Analogy

“If you like plop, plop of a faucet at three in the morning, you will like this record” This is an example of which device?

Onomatopoeia

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. ” –Francis Bacon This is an example of which device?

Simile

“If you take his parking place, you can expect World War II all over again. ” This is an example of which device?

Allusion

“The truth is the only thing that no one will believe” -George Bernard Shaw This statement is an example of which device?

Paradox

“Thunderous silence” and “jumbo shrimp” are examples of which device?

Oxymoron

“Mary changed her mind as often as she inhaled” is an example of which writer’s device(s)?

Hyperbole and simile

Which device is “a figure of speech in which the intended meaning of a word it stated is the opposite of its literal meaning”

Irony

“Plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark. ” –Richard Cushing Which device is this an example of?

Allusion

“Scandalously nice” “wise fool” and “freezing fire” are examples of which writer’s device?

Oxymoron

Deliberately expressing an idea as less important than it actually is. This is called _______

Understatement

“When it comes to midterms, it’s kill or be killed. Let’s go in and slay this test. Let’s take the beast head on, let’s shred it with our pencils and claim victory. ” This is an example of which device?

Extended metaphor

“The moon pools on the tombs” is an example of _____

Assonance

“I can’t get this fuel pump back on because this bolt is being uncooperative. ” Name the device being used.

Personification

“The cost-saving plan became an expensive economy. ” Name the device

Oxymoron

“I said ‘rare’ not ‘raw. ’ I’ve seen cows hurt worse than this get up and get well. ” Name the device.

Hyperbole

“The soul in the body is like a bird in a cage” Name the device

Simile

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about” –Oscar Wilde Name the device

Paradox

Examples and definitions from http: //www. virtualsalt. com/rhetoric. htm or NTC’s Dictionary of Literary Terms by Kathleen Morner & Ralph Rausch, 1991 or www. writersdigest. com