#gm Type- Figurative Language Terms - Statistics

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Question	Answer	Hint	% Correct
Deliberate exaggeration for emphasis or comedy.	Hyperbole	They've got truckloads of money.	100%
Repetition of the same initial consonant sound in successive words.	Alliteration	Those purple pigs are preposterous.	0%
Deliberate changing of normal word order for emphasis.	Anastrophe	Ugly she was not.	0%
Repetition of the same vowel sound in neighboring words.	Assonance	Hear, not fear, the wisdom of wizards.	0%
Repetition of the same consonant sound in neighboring words.	Consonance	The big dog dug a hole.	0%
An agreeable or inoffensive term used to replace a rude or offensive one.	Euphemism	didn't make it = has died	0%
A commonly used expression whose meaning does not relate to the literal meaning of its words.	Idiom	This is the last straw.	0%
A word that looks like what it means.	Logos-glyph	She had eyes like pools.	0%
A figure of speech that compares two unrelated things by stating that one thing is another.	Metaphor	This bedroom is a prison.	0%
The use of a word which sounds like what it represents.	Onomatopoeia	I can hear it sizzling?	0%
When non-human objects are given human traits.	Personification	Summer's healing rays	0%
A word made by blending the meanings and parts of the spellings of two or more other words	Portmanteau	spork or fanzine	0%
A witticism that plays on the different meanings of a word or two words that sound alike but have different meanings.	Pun	I'm an honest cheetah.	0%
A figure of speech that likens one thing to another (usually by using the word like or as).	Similes	She sings like an angel.	0%
Involves inserting a word into another word (or dividing a word up into chunks). Used for emphasis.	Tmesis	Un-be-lievable!	0%

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