Part to Whole = What is the relationship of the two words?

Branch: Tree
Whole to Part = What is the relationship of the two words? Ocean: Water
Cause & Effect = What is the relationship of the two words? Germ: Disease
Affect & Cause = What is the relationship of the two words? Honors: Study
Degree = What is the relationship of the two words? Hut: Mansions
Sequence = What is the relationship of the two words? Elementary: Secondary
Function = What is the relationship of the two words? Oven: Bake
Characteristics = What is the relationship of the two words? Wise: Owl
Antonym = What is the relationship of the two words? Bad: Good
Synonym = What is the relationship of the two words? Bright: Intelligent
Simile = an expressed comparison between two similar things introduced by like, as if, than, or
similar to.
like, as if, than, or similar to = Simile is a figure of speech which expresses comparison between
two similar things introduced by ____, ____, ____, or ____.
Simile = a figure of speech in which the things compared differ in most ways but are strikingly
alike in some ways.
Simile = Example: The lady sings as if mere speech had taken fire.
Metaphor = an implied comparison of unlike objects without as or like.
Metaphor = The sun was a dish of molten brass swimming in the burst-out blue of the sky.
Personification = The figure of speech in which some human characteristic is attributed to an
inanimate thing.
Personification = Example: Time, as he grows old, teaches many lessons.
Metonymy = A figure of speech in which one word is put for another that it suggests.
Metonymy = Example: Everyone recognizes the power of the ballot. (the right to vote)
Synecdoche = A figure of speech in which the writer names a part when he means the whole or
the whole when he means a part.
Synecdoche = Example: skirt (for a girl) a pen (for writing)
Hyperbole = An exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis or poetic effect.
Hyperbole = It is an overstatement without the intention of deception.
Hyperbole = Example: I think of you a million times a day.
Litotes = The opposite of hyperbole.
Litotes = It is a conscious understatement for emphasis and is often used in characterization to
imply modesty or to soften the effect.
Litotes = Example: This is no laughing matter.
Antithesis = A contrast of words or ideas.
Antithesis = A white becomes whiter when faced with black, so contrasting expressions make
ideas more emphatic.
Antithesis = Example: Man proposes. God disposes.
Apostrophe = An address to the absent as if present or to the inanimate as if human.
Apostrophe = An address to the absent as if present.
Apostrophe = An address to the inanimate as if human.
Apostrophe = Example: O, Liberty! Liberty! How many crimes are committed in thy name!
Irony = saying the opposite of what is meant in a tone or manner that shows what the speaker
thinks.
Irony = Example: It was very kind of you to remind me of my humiliation.