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Figurative Language
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- Q1Extreme exaggeration used to make a point.PunIronyIdiomHyperbole30s
- Q2Comparison made between two things using the words like or asSimileAnalogyParadoxMetaphor30s
- Q3Occurrence of the same letter at the beginning of words that are near each other.RepititionAssonanceAlliterationIrony30s
- Q4Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.AlliterationAssonanceSimileRhyme30s
- Q5When the audience knows something that a character does not.EuphemismDramatic IronyParadoxSecret30s
- Q6When what is said is actually the opposite of what is really meant.ParadoxMetaphorDramatic IronyVerbal Irony30s
- Q7Expression used by a particular group of people with a meaning that is only known through common use. You cannot take the meaning literal.EuphemismIdiomAnalogyIrony30s
- Q8Comparison made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.SimileIdiomMetaphorPun30s
- Q9Brief reference to a person, place, idea or thing from literature, mythology history etc.OxymoronParadoxAllusionHyperbole30s
- Q10Comparison between two different things in order to highlight some point of similarity.AnalogyParadoxSimileMetaphor30s
- Q11Play on words.AlliterationIronyPunOnomatopoeia30s
- Q12Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear next to each other.OxymoronIronyAnalogyMetaphor30s
- Q13Seemingly contradictory statement, which actually makes sense or contains some truth.AnalogyIronyParadoxPun30s
- Q14When you give human like qualities to an object, idea, or animal.IdiomIronyAllusionPersonification30s
- Q15Use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions to which they refer.OnomatopoeiaAssonanceEuphemismOxymoron30s