A figure of speech is which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it.

This quiz should help you to understand and remember the terms and concepts introduced in our page on the Top 20 Figures of Speech.

Quiz on Commonly Confused Figures of Speech

Though there are hundreds of figures of speech (many of them included in our Tool Kit for Rhetorical Analysis), here we'll focus on just 20 of the most common figures.

Definition of the literary term, synecdoche, for writers of short stories and novels.