Sheet GCSE’S/ A Levels -Figures of speech - Statistics

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Description	Figures of speech	% Correct
Figure of speech that implies comparison between two unlike entities, it’ different than the first, because isn’t an explicit comparison. The distinction is not simple. This figure of speech makes a qualitative leap from a reasonable, perhaps prosaic, comparison to an identification or fusion of two objects, the intention being to create one new entity that partakes of the characteristics of both.	Metaphor	87%
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.	Simile	84%
This figure of speech is an extravagant exaggeration.	Hyperbole	65%
In prosody, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables.	Alliteration	42%
It represents a thing or an idea in the guise of a person.	Personification	42%
Repeating the same word several times.	Repetition	39%
A word or group of words that is self-contradicting and whip are glue.	Oxymoron	35%
A figure of speech in which irreconcilable opposites or strongly contrasting ideas are placed in sharp juxtaposition and sustained tension.	Antithesis	23%
Attenuation of an idea or feeling in order to obscure its unpleasantness.	Euphemism	23%
It’s employed for rhetorical effect.	Rhetorical question	23%
Figure close to the previous one: the words are linked by an inclusion relation: the part for the whole / the material for the object.	Synecdoche	23%
It is a process of symbolization which allows a concentration of the utterance. We do not name the being or the object but we use another name that is close to it because it is about its cause, its container, ... The two terms have a close relationship.	Metonymy	19%
In prosody, the repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables.	Anaphora	16%
To say the least to express the most.	Litotes	16%
Apparently self-contradictory statement, the underlying meaning of which is revealed only by careful scrutiny.	Paradox	16%
Linguistic and literary device, in spoken or written form, in which real meaning is concealed or contradicted.	Irony	10%
In rhetoric, component of literary style in both prose and poetry, in which coordinate ideas are arranged in phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that balance one element with another of equal importance and similar wording. The repetition of sounds, meanings, and structures serves to order, emphasize, and point out relations.	Parallelism	10%
Concise compound or figurative phrase replacing a common noun, especially in Old Germanic, Old Norse, and Old English poetry. This figure of speech is commonly a simple stock compound such as “whale-path” or “swan road” for “sea,” “God’s beacon” for “sun,” or “ring-giver” for “king”.	Kenning	6%
The use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression; a roundabout or indirect manner of writing or speaking.	Periphrasis	6%
Unsuccessful, and therefore ludicrous, attempt to portray pathos in art, i.e., to evoke pity, sympathy, or sorrow.	Bathos	3%
Figure of speech, usually a simile or metaphor, that forms an extremely ingenious or fanciful parallel between apparently dissimilar or incongruous objects or situations.	Conceit	3%

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