English Ieb exam with correct answers 100% 2024

Allusion - Correct Answer A reference to another work of literature, person, or event Antithesis - Correct Answer the direct opposite, a sharp contrast Litotes - Correct Answer understatement innuendo - Correct Answer a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference Synecdoche - Correct Answer A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). spoonerism - Correct Answer An often comical switching of the first sounds of two or more words Metonymy - Correct Answer the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant malapropism - Correct Answer the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar Paradox - Correct Answer a contradiction or dilemma Oxymoron - Correct Answer a combination of contradictory words Hyperbole - Correct Answer exaggeration Foreshadowing - Correct Answer the use of hints to suggest what will happen later in a plot comic relief - Correct Answer A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood Pun - Correct Answer A play on words function of apostrophe - Correct Answer possession function of hyphen - Correct Answer joins 2 words to form a compound word tone - Correct Answer attitude