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What do you called a kind of figurative languge that uses words, prose, phrases in a non-literal definition but gives meaning in abstraction?
a) a. Figures of speech
b) b. Figurative language
c) c. Idiomatic expression
d) d. Parts of speech

What do you called the type of figures of speech wherein it deals with disparity of ideas and words?
a) a. Allusion
b) b. Anti-thesis
c) c. Apostrophe
d) d. Hyperbole

What do you called the type of figures of speech which states an exaggeration of a given statement?
a) a. Irony
b) b. Litotes
c) c. Hyperbole
d) d. Metaphor

What do you called the type of figure of speech which states that the opinion seems impossible but true of a given statement?
a) a. Metonymy
b) b. Oxymoron
c) c. Paradox
d) d. Metaphor

What do you called a figures of speech wherein it deals with the combination of two words with different meaning to form a new word?
a) a. Metonymy
b) b. Oxymoron
c) c. Hyperbole
d) d. Synecdoche

What do you called a type of figures of speech that uses the words “like” or “as” to compare things?
a) a. Metaphor
b) b. Personification
c) c. Metonymy
d) d. simile

What is a type of figures of speech wherein one word is being replaced to stand for another?
a) a. Metaphor
b) b. Personification
c) c. Metonymy
d) d. Simile

What do you called a type of figures of speech that is use to compare two things without using the word “as” or “like’?
a) a. Metaphor
b) b. Personification
c) c. Metonymy
d) d. simile

What do you called a type of figures of speech wherein it deals to address an inanimate object or dead person?
a) a. Allusion
b) b. Anti-thesis
c) c. Apostrophe
d) d. Hyperbole

What do you called a type of figures of speech where you used to affirm by negating the opposite?
a) a. Irony
b) b. Litotes
c) c. Hyperbole
d) d. Metaphor

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