Word up! Do you know the difference between an oxymoron and onomatopoeia? See what your trivia players know about these figurative words.
In language, giving human characteristics to inanimate objects is known as ____________.
Which of the following describes words that imitate the sound they denote, such as "splash," "bang", and "moo"?
Perhaps the most famous pun in all of literature, "Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York", opens which Shakespeare play?
Which of these is NOT a backronym, an acronym intentionally formed from the letters of an existing word, name, or abbreviation?
Which of the following refers to a phrase, such as "piece of cake" meaning "something easy", whose greater meaning cannot be deduced from its individual words?
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