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Match the following literary devices with their definitions:
Match the following literary devices with their definitions:
Analogy = A connection between two similar things usually to clarify or explain something Metaphor/Extended Metaphor = A figure of speech that is not literally applicable to the situation Simile = A comparison of two different things to make the description more specific and easy to visualize Conceit = Makes a comparison between two very different things with the use of a far fetched connection between them
Match the following literary devices with their examples:
Match the following literary devices with their examples:
Epithet = Superman 'the Man of Steel' Euphemism = 'Let go' instead of 'fired' Hyperbole = 'The homework is going to take years' Imagery = Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
Match the following expressions with their definitions:
Match the following expressions with their definitions:
Apostrophe = When some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding Cliché = A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought Epithet = An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned Euphemism = A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing
Match the following literary device with its definition:
Match the following literary device with its definition:
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Match the following figures of speech with their examples:
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Match the following rhetorical devices with their descriptions:
Match the following rhetorical devices with their descriptions:
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Study Notes
Irony
- Verbal irony: when the intention of the speaker contradicts the reality of what's occurring
- Example: Saying "What lovely weather it is today!" when it's raining or stormy outside
- Situational irony: something that occurs while being very different from what was expected
- Examples: A fire station burning down, a police station being robbed, a scammer getting scammed
- Dramatic irony: when a character/speaker is unaware of the full truth while it's clear to the audience/reader
- Example: In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo enters the tomb thinking Juliet is dead and drinks poison to be with Juliet in death, while Juliet wakes up just after Romeo dies
Figures of Speech
- Oxymoron: a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings
- Examples: "bittersweet", "old news", "deafening silence", "organized chaos", "completely unfinished", "pretty ugly", "original copy"
- Paradox: a statement that is logically self-contradicting, running contrary to one's expectation
- Examples: "It was the beginning of the end", "Save money by spending it", "If I know one thing, it's that I know nothing"
Personification and Synesthesia
- Personification: the attribution of human-like characteristics to nonhuman objects or animals
- Example: "As the sky cleared and the clouds vanished, the sun smiled upon us"
- Synesthesia: a rhetorical device used to describe objects using human senses
- Example: "His cold gaze met mine"
Wordplay and Rhetorical Devices
- Pun: a joke that exploits the different possible meanings of a word
- Example: "Having a boiled egg as a snack is hard to beat"
- Synecdoche: when the word for a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing
- Example: "She's a redhead"
- Metonymy: when a word closely associated with something is used to refer to the thing itself
- Example: "I swore loyalty to the crown"
- Understatement (litotes): an ironic understatement that uses negation to form a statement
- Example: "I'm not unfamiliar with that video game…"
Comparisons
- Analogy: a connection between two similar things, usually to clarify or explain something
- Metaphor/Extended Metaphor: a figure of speech that is not literally applicable to the situation
- Simile: a comparison of two different things to make the description more specific and easy to visualize
- Conceit: makes a comparison between two very different things with the use of a far-fetched connection between them
- Apostrophe: when some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding
- Cliché: a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought
- Examples: "There are more fish in the sea", "Think outside the box", "There's no I in Team"
- Epithet: an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
- Examples: "earth-shaker" Poseidon, "wide-seeing" Zeus, "gray-eyed" Athena, Superman "the Man of Steel"
- Euphemism: a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing
- Examples: "Let go" instead of "fired", "Bit the dust" instead of "died", "Big boned" instead of "fat"
- Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
- Examples: "The homework is going to take years", "I could eat a whole cow"
- Imagery: visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
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Test your knowledge on different figures of speech such as analogy, metaphor, simile, conceit, and apostrophe. Learn about the functions and examples of each figure of speech in language and literature.
