Statistics for Literary Terms

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
an extravagant exaggeration	hyperbole	82%
the occurence of the same letter or sound at the beginnning of adjacent or closely connected words	alliteration	68%
the giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects	personification	65%
a figure of speech where contradictory trems appear side by side	oxymoron	60%
words meant to depict a sound	onomatopoeia	50%
a narrative that serves as an extended metaphor	allegory	44%
another character in a story who contrasts with the main characte to highlight one of their attributes	foil	36%
using decorous language as a substitute for vulgarities	euphemism	33%
a figure of speech which uses a part of an object as a name for the whole	synecdoche	33%
the repetition of a word or phrase at the begginning of successive clauses	anaphora	28%
intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive	didactic	20%
the depiction of a connection between two different senses	synesthesia	16%
the misuse of words for comic effect by substituting similar words	malapropism	14%
a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases	chiasmus	13%
a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses	zeugma	13%
figures of speech that use an understated statement of an affirmative by using a negative description	litotes	12%