Interactive Quiz created by Nancy Roberts Garrity at

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Interactive Quiz created by Nancy Roberts Garrity at St. John Fisher School “A dog not only has a fur coat, but also pants. ” “Busy hands worked in the kitchen. ” “The pen is mightier than the sword. ” NOTE: In order to play this game, it must be viewed in slide show (F 5)

compiled by Nancy Roberts Garrity Figurative language is writing or speech not intended to be taken literally. Some commonly used figures of speech are pun, synecdoche, and metonymy. You will see examples of these in this exercise. A pun is using a word or words that have more than one meaning. It is sometimes called “a play on words. ” Some examples are: “A bicycle can’t stand alone because it is two-tired” and “A chicken crossing a road is poultry in motion. ” A synecdoche is a unique type of metaphor that uses a part to represent or suggest the whole. For example in “Our class brain always has all the correct answers, ” we identify the smartest student in the class by using the word brain. This is a synecdoche because “brain” represents a part of the whole person. A metonymy is a unique type of metaphor in which something is named that replaces something closely related to it. In metonymy, one thing is said when another thing is meant. For example in “Let’s take this problem to City Hall, ” City Hall refers to the people in the local city government rather than the building itself.