Figures of Speech

Some people prefer their cars to be referred to as "wheels". It is an example of:

• a. Synecdoche

• b. Hyperbole

• c. Metaphor

• d. Metonymy

Answer explanation

So synecdoche is referring to your car as your “wheels” since they are a single part of your car.

A figure of speech in which a word or a phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• a. Paradox

• b. Pun

• c. Personification

• d. Metaphor

It is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• a. Assonance

• b. Alliteration

• c. Consonance

• d. Litotes

Answer explanation

In order to easily determine alliteration in a speech or article, remember this famous tongue twister as reference!

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

"Zaaap!" can be referred to as:

• a. Metaphor

• b. Personification

• c. Onomatopoeia

• d. Apostrophe

It is speaking to an object or item that is not alive as if it were in fact, alive.

• a. Personification

• b. Metaphor

• c. Paradox

• d. Apostrophe

Answer explanation

Other examples of apostrophe are the following:

"Rizal, indeed you are right. The future is pink."

"O, death! You are a thief and a villain."

Write your own 2 stanza poem about any subject using the following figures of speech. Label them accordingly and see the example stanza below.

Time, you are my ocean (Apostrophe)

You swirl in every fiber of my being

Today is the beginning of an end (Paradox)

Only time can comprehend.