FIGURES OF SPEECH (CONTRADICTIONS)

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Mastering Figures of Speech

Test your knowledge of figures of speech and discover the nuances of language through this engaging quiz! Each question is designed to challenge your understanding of various literary devices, from paradoxes to hyperboles.

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This is a statement that is self-contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time.

PARADOX

IRONY

LITOTES

UNDERSTATEMENT OR MEIOSIS

This is a figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.

SYNESTHESIA

LITOTES

UNDERSTATEMENT OR MEIOSIS

ALLUSION

This is a literary device referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem. Many times, it is the exact opposite of what it appears to be.

SYNESTHESIA

ALLUSION

IRONY

LITOTES

This is a figure of speech consisting of an ironical understatement in which affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite.

IRONY

SYNESTHESIA

ALLUSION

LITOTES

This refers to a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell, etc. At a given time. This is an attempt to fuse different senses by describing one in terms of another.

SIMILE

METAPHOR

SYNESTHESIA

PERSONIFICATION

FIGURES OF SPEECH (CONTRADICTIONS)

Mastering Figures of Speech

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