Identify These Figures of Speech

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. 'Out in the porch's sagging floor, Leaves got up in a coil and hissed, Blindly struck at my knee and missed.' hyperbole simile metaphor irony

2. George Bush talked during his campaign about 'compassionate conservatism', which to many liberals sounds like a(n) ___________________. synecdoche apostrophe euphemism oxymoron

3. 'Necessity is the mother of invention.' litotes paradox oxymoron personification

4. 'The poor people of Ireland should rid themselves of poverty by selling their children to the rich to eat.' neologism paradox irony logorrhea

5. The phrases 'the humming bee', 'the cackling hen', and 'the buzzing saw' are examples of ________________. spoonerisms personification onomatopoeia metonymy

6. 'How many times have I told you to clean your room?' eponymy hyperbole rhetorical question oxymoron

7. 'To err is human, to forgive divine.' irony simile antithesis litotes

8. 'My uncle passed away in 1970.' tautology exclamation euphemism apostrophe

9. 'When Detroit increased auto production recently, Wall Street applauded and the White House took credit.' eponymy metonymy sesquipedalian simile

10. 'My rancher uncle bought 50 head of cattle last week.' synecdoche euphemism personification oxymoron

11. 'My son's teacher made it clear that cheating on tests was no laughing matter.' irony synecdoche litotes onomatopoeia

12. 'Hail divinest Melancholy, whose saintly visage is too bright to hit the sense of human sight.' anticlimax euphemism climax apostrophe

13. 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!' metaphor hyperbole metonymy conceit

14. 'Christianity shone like a beacon in the black night of paganism.' What figure of speech is "Christianity shone like a beacon"? simile litotes conceit climax

15. In Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis are buried President Benjamin Harrison, 3 Vice-Presidents, 15 Senators and Governors, and John Dillinger.' metaphor climax anticlimax conceit