Question and Answer

Poetry is the only genre of literature that uses figures of speech.

An Idiom

What words are used to establish a simile?

What is an allusion?

An exaggeration

A pairing of contradictory words

A magic trick.

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

A reference to something well known in culture

Match the figure of speech to its definition:

personification

hyperbole

imagery

irony

Difference between expectation and reality

An extreme exaggeration

Comparison NOT using like or as

Giving nonhuman things human characteristics

Language that appeals to the senses

metaphor

The following line of poetry is an example of a hyperbole: Although Miranda is pretty, her dress is pretty ugly.

What is the following line of poetry an example of?She walks in beauty like the night.

simile

allusion

idiom

oxymoron

hyperbole

What figure of speech is the following?:“And the dish ran away with the spoon”

What figure of speech is the following newspaper headline?“Dead Batteries Given Away Free of Charge!”

What figure of speech is the following?“Water, Water, Everywhere, nor any drop to drink”

simile

personification

pun

oxymoron

irony