Figures of speech under substitutions (tropes)
What figure of speech involves the use of a word or phrase to mean the opposite of its literal meaning?
Irony
Which figure of speech uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect?
Hyperbole
What figure of speech involves giving human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas?
Personification
Which figure of speech uses a word or phrase to represent something else closely associated with it?
Synecdoche
What figure of speech compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?
Simile
Which figure of speech combines contradictory or contrasting words?
Oxymoron
What figure of speech substitutes a part for the whole or vice versa?
Synecdoche
Which figure of speech uses words that imitate the sound they represent?
Onomatopoeia
What figure of speech describes a contradictory statement that may actually be true?
Paradox
Which figure of speech involves substituting the name of one thing with the name of something closely related to it?
Metonymy