WHAT DO YOU KNOW? JR/SR

Repetition of consonant sounds

• alliteration

• asmile

• Assonance

• Rhyme

A direct comparison between two unrelated things

• simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Giving human characteristics to non-human/inanimate objects

• Personification

• Anthropomorphism

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

Exaggeration for emphasis or dramatic effect

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Iron

• Paradox

Combining two contradictory terms

• Paradoz

• Hyperbole

• Antithesis

• Oxymoron

Words that imitate sounds

• Metonym

• Synecdoche

• Onomatopoeia

• Euphemism

The contrast between what is expected and what ACTUALLY happens

• Irony

• Metaphorically

• Idiom

• Antithesis

A play on words that have multiple meanings or similar sounds

• PUN

• Jest

• Quip

• Witty remark

"He is not bad looking" is an example of

• Litote

• Metonynm

• Zeugma

• Paradox

Using like of as to compare two things

• Simile

• Asimile

• Smile

• Analogy