Figures Of Speech

Front 1

Reference to a person, place, or thing outside of the confines of the poem.

Back 1

Allusion

Hint 1

What is your Achiles' heel?

Front 2

An address to an inanimate object, a muse, God or deceased person.

Back 2

Apostrophe

Hint 2

Rizal, our country is in need of thee.

Front 3

Exaggerated statement

Back 3

Hyperbole

Hint 3

Shouts of the angry people reached heaven.

Front 4

Is an understatement in which the affirmative is implied by denying its opposite. ; no or not

Back 4

Litotes

Hint 4

She wasn't bad looking

Less beautiful

Less intelligent

Front 5

Comparison in which something compared to something else.

Back 5

Metaphor

Hint 5

Paul Simon used "a sparrow" than snail.

Front 6

One word or image is used to present another with which it is associated.

Back 6

Metonymy

Hint 6

The pen is mightier than a sword.

Front 7

Contradiction seemingly cannot be resolved.

Back 7

Oxymoron

Hint 7

Cruel kindness

Strongest weakness

Perfectly wrong

Front 8

Contradictory statement that seems to be true

Back 8

Paradox

Hint 8

There's nothing more constant than change.

Front 9

Poet bestows human characteristics to inanimate objects, abstract qualities and animals

Back 9

Personification

Hint 9

The sea waves kissed the shore.

Front 10

Comparison using like or as

Back 10

Simile

Hint 10

Our maid is as low as a snail.

Front 11

Closely related to metonymy; part is used to suggest a whole

Back 11

Synechdoché

Hint 11

He is cut-throat; it means he's dead.

Front 12

Use of language which when taken literally expresses the contrary.

Back 12

Irony

Hint 12

Cry aloud for He is God.

Front 13

Makes use of same word at the end of one clause.

Back 13

Anadiplosis

Hint 13

He lives!

Lives! A father's curse can never die.

Front 14

Repetition of same word at the beginning of several successive clauses

Back 14

Anaphora

Hint 14

Two hunts

Two graves

Two luscious

Two mistresses

Front 15

Juxtaposition of two unlike things so that each will be striking

Back 15

Antithesis

Hint 15

To be a blessing, and not a curse. Or

The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself.

Front 16

Use of proper name instead of common name

Back 16

Antonomasia

Hint 16

Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast

Front 17

Ellipsis of connectives

Back 17

Asyndeton

Hint 17

I came, (and) I saw, (and) I conquered.

Front 18

Is contradiction between the literal meaning and the real meaning (matalinhaga)

Back 18

Epigram

Hint 18

The child is the father of the man.

Front 19

Emphatic repetition of a word

Back 19

Epizeuxis

Hint 19

Break, break, break!

Front 20

Softened way of saying things that were disagreaable

Back 20

Euphemism

Hint 20

Less intelligent

Less beautiful

Front 21

Inversion of the national order of the words or phrases in a sentence

Back 21

Hyperbaton

Hint 21

Deep on his front engraven,

Deliberation sat and public care.

Front 22

Asking questions

Back 22

Interrogation

Hint 22

??

Front 23

Ludicrous imitation of mispronunciation

Back 23

Mimesis

Hint 23

Hamericans, Hamsterdam

Front 24

Pretends to pass something he really mentions

Back 24

Paralepsis

Hint 24

I make no mention of the enemy's bad faith and treachery.

Front 25

Play on words

Back 25

Paranomasia

Hint 25

Handel with care.

Hayden go seek.

Front 26

Use of more words than are necessary to the sentence

Back 26

The villain, is he yet alive?

The gold you set, it was squandered.

Front 27

Inventional prefixing of a syllable

Back 27

Prosthesis

Hint 27

Adown, agoing,.arruning

Front 28

Agreement of one word with another used in a figurative sense

Back 28

Syllepsis

Hint 28

The word was made flesh and dwelt among us.

Front 29

Repition of like sounds

Back 29

Tone color

Hint 29

ALLITERATION

ASSONANCE

CONSONANCE

ONOMATOPOEIA

Front 30

Repetition of identical consonant sounds beginning

Back 30

Alliteration

Hint 30

I wake and feel the fell of dark not day.

Front 31

Identical vowel sounds

Back 31

Assonance

Hint 31

And all is seared with a trade

Front 32

Repetition of identical consonant sounds at end

Back 32

Consonance

Hint 32

The cold hard diamond was held in hand

Front 33

Sound like meanings

Back 33

Onomatopoeia

Hint 33

Bees they buzz

Front 34

Helps unify the poem by keeping thought groups together.

Back 34

Rhyme

Hint 34

Dove

Love

Front 35

Rhythym in poem

Back 35

Meter

Front 36

LITERARY IMAGERY

Back 36

Allusion

Apostrophe

Hyperbole

Litotes

Metaphor

Metonymy

Oxymoron

Paradox

Personification

Simile

Synecdoche

Irony

Front 37

ADDITIONAL TYPES

Back 37

Anadiplosis

Anaphora

Antithesis

Antanomasia

Asyndeton

Epigram

Epizeuxis

Euphemism

Hyperbaton

Interrogation

Mimesis

Paranomasia

Paralepsis

Pleonasm

Prosthesis

Syllepsis

Front 38

ELEMENTS OF POETRY

Back 38

Tone color

Rhyme

Meter