Sound Devices - Poetry

A statement that looks like a contradiction; but makes good sense when you examine it more closely.

• Paradox

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Litotes

The placement of two contrasting ideas side by side.

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Irony

• Meiosis

Saying the opposite of what you really mean is called ...

Choose the 3 correct forms of Irony:

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Climatic Irony

• Bathos Irony

• Irony of Fate

A deliberate exaggeration in order to make a point.

• Meiosis

• Innuendo

• Hyperbole

• Homophone

Meiosis is the opposite of a ........ making an understatement in order to prove a point.

• Litote

• Euphemism

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

A Euphemism, like Meiosis, is an understatement. It expresses an unpleasant reality in a more sensitive way

• True

• False

A special kind of euphemism which makes a statement by denying the opposite of that statement.

• Meiosis

• Metonymy

• Litotes

• Oxymoron

This picture of a disrespectful remark that is made in the form of an insinuation, is an example of:

• Metonymy

• Innuendo

• Synecdoche

• Pun

The picture of identifying a thing by mentioning something associated with it, is a ...

• Metonymy

• Euphemism

• Synecdoche

• Sarcasm