Figure out the Figure.

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1. Gasp! Gulp! Splash! All these words are examples of which figure? Onomatopoiea Aporia Alliteration Cacophony

2. Even if you are a cowboy you probably use rhetorical figures, like "I've got fifty head", to mean fifty cows. What is this figure called, in which the part stands for the whole? Assonance Synecdoche Anadiplosis Irony

3. "My mother-in-law: I hate her". This very common sentence is an example of Hyperbaton, in which the common order of words is changed to get more emphasis or effect. But to be even more precise, what kind of Hyperbaton is this? Parenthesis Anastrophe Hysteron Proteron Tmesis

4. You come home from work, you're a bit hungry and you groan "I'm starving!". What kind of figure you're using? Hyperbole Personification Chiasmus Metonimy

5. There's a figure called "Litotes", that can be considered a form of understatement. Can you identify the Litotes among the following examples? The wine is not bad Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Shelby sells sea shells at the sea shore Grandad has gone to a better place

6. Mae West once said: "It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men." This is a brilliant example of another "scheme", the scheme being a figure of speech that changes the normal arrangement of words in a sentence. But what kind of scheme has been used here? Climax Chiasmus Isocolon Ellipsis

7. Let's get back to Metaphor, or to the kind called Metonymy. Please, identify the Metonymy here: Scared to death Loyal to the crown Fit as a fiddle Being on the dole.

8. "O brawling love! O loving hate! O heavy lightness! serious vanity!" From "Romeo and Juliet", another figure of speech where contradictory terms appear side by side. What is it called? Pleonasm Oxymoron Allegory Periphrasis

9. "I am angry; no, I'm furious!" it is an example of a figure of interruption. Can you identify which one? Anacoluthon Epanorthosis Aposiopesis Appositio

10. And now the last trope, called Antaclasis (Greek, from Reflection). It consists in repeating a single word with a different meaning. It is widely used in puns and advertising slogans. So you can try to complete this Antaclasis yourself: She is nice from far, but... Answer: (Three Words)