Figurative Devices

Hyperbole refers to ________

• emphasis
• exaggeration
• explanation
• encouragement

A metaphor is different to a simile because...

• it is a direct comparison and not a indirect one
• it uses like or as
• it compares two things only whereas a simile can compare more
• it is a comparison and a simile is not

True or False: personification is a special kind of animorphism

• true
• false

"It is raining cats and dogs" is an example of a _________.

• idiom
• animorphism
• proverb
• pun

Finding Nemo (the movie) makes use of ______

• hyperbole
• irony
• animorphism
• personification

"The trees waved in the wind" is an example of ________

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• redundancy

"many are called; few are chosen" is an example of a ______

• paradox
• antithesis
• antonym
• oxymoron

"This is the beginning of the end" is an example of _________

• oxymoron
• redundancy
• paradox
• antithesis

True or False: there are 3 kinds of irony

• True
• False

"You are clearly confused" uses a/an _________

• paradox
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• oxymoron