Figurative Language

Question 1

The rhetorical question(s)

Answer 1

A literary device where a question is asked not to elicit an answer, but to make a point or create a dramatic effect

Question 2

To hyperbolise / the hyperbole / hyperbolic(ally)

Answer 2

Figure of speech that creates heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration

Question 3

A/the pun(s)

Answer 3

A literary device that is also known as a play on words. Involves words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.

Question 4

A/the homonym(s)

Answer 4

Each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins

Question 5

A/the homophone(s)

Answer 5

Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but with different meanings, origins, spelling (new and knew)

Question 6

A/the homograph(s)

Answer 6

Each of two or more words spelled the same but not nexesssrily pronounced the same and having different meanings and origins

Question 7

A/the pathetic fallacy/ies

Answer 7

A literary device that attributed human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature

Question 8

A/the pathetic fallacy/ies

Answer 8

A literary device that attributed human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of naturey (weather features reflecting a mood)

Question 9

Personification

Answer 9

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Question 10

To symbolise / a/the sumbol(s) / the symbolism / symbolic(ally)

Answer 10

The use of symbols in a literary work. A symbol is something that stands for or suggests something else and represents something beyond literal meaning

Question 11

A/the allegory/ies / allegorical(ly)

Answer 11

A narration or description in which events, actions, characters, settings or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas

Question 12

A/the fable(s)

Answer 12

A short, fictional story that typically uses animals, plants or inanimate objects with human-like qualities to illustrate a moral or lesson

Question 13

An/the idiom(s) / idiomatic(ally)

Answer 13

A saying or expression that is widely used among speakers of a certain language and whose figurative meaning is different from its literal meaning

Question 14

The verbal irony / a/the sarcasm / sarcastic(ally)

Answer 14

Figurative language intended to mock or satirise something, generally taking form of an ironic remark