FIGURE OF SPEECH
By Chessart
Given below are 15 different figures of speech. Please identify identify which type of figure of speech it is from the 4 choices given. Each figure of speech will only be used once as a correct answer.
1. 'Out in the porch's sagging floor, Leaves got up in a coil and hissed, Blindly struck at my knee and missed.'
simile
hyperbole
irony
metaphor
2. George Bush talked during his campaign about 'compassionate conservatism', which to many liberals sounds like a(n) ___________________.
oxymoron
euphemism
synecdoche
apostrophe
3. 'Necessity is the mother of invention.'
litotes
personification
paradox
4. 'The poor people of Ireland should rid themselves of poverty by selling their children to the rich to eat.'
neologism
logorrhea
5. The phrases 'the humming bee', 'the cackling hen', and 'the buzzing saw' are examples of ________________.
spoonerisms
onomatopoeia
metonymy
6. 'How many times have I told you to clean your room?'
rhetorical question
eponymy
7. 'To err is human, to forgive divine.'
antithesis
8. 'My uncle passed away in 1970.'
exclamation
tautology
9. 'When Detroit increased auto production recently, Wall Street applauded and the White House took credit.'
sesquipedalian
10. 'My rancher uncle bought 50 head of cattle last week.'
11. 'My son's teacher made it clear that cheating on tests was no laughing matter.'
12. 'Hail divinest Melancholy, whose saintly visage is too bright to hit the sense of human sight.'
climax
anticlimax
13. 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!'
conceit
14. 'Christianity shone like a beacon in the black night of paganism.'
15. In Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis are buried President Benjamin Harrison, 3 Vice-Presidents, 15 Senators and Governors, and John Dillinger.'