impressive language techniques
What is the literary term for giving human traits to non-human objects or animals?
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Which language technique involves exaggeration for emphasis?
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Simile
What technique compares two things using 'like' or 'as'?
Allusion
Irony
Metaphor
Simile
Which technique involves the use of repeated consonant sounds at the start of words?
Alliteration
Assonance
Euphemism
Rhyme
What is the language technique where the opposite of what is expected happens?
Allusion
Foreshadowing
Irony
Sarcasm
What do we call the repetition of similar vowel sounds?
Alliteration
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Which technique uses words that imitate the sounds they describe?
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
What is it called when an author hints at events to come later in a text?
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Satire
Symbolism
Which term refers to using contradictory terms together, like 'deafening silence'?
Irony
Juxtaposition
Oxymoron
Paradox
What is the technique of referencing a well-known work, event, or person?
Allusion
Euphemism
Foreshadowing
Metaphor