Words trivia
Name a figure of speech
73 answers count for this words prompt. Here is what floats on top, what sits just below the waterline, and how far down the rest go.
Floating on top
Right, but shallow: 7 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Metaphor
- Simile
- Hyperbole
- Irony
- Alliteration
- Personification
- Onomatopoeia
Below the waterline
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Oxymoron
- Pun
- Idiom
- Euphemism
- Understatement
- Paradox
- Cliché
- Sarcasm
- Assonance
- Apostrophe
- Antithesis
- Allusion
- Metonymy
- Synecdoche
The iceberg for “Name a figure of speech”
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsMetaphor · Simile · Hyperbole
- Below the Surface14 answers · 25 ptsOxymoron · Pun · Idiom …
- The Deep28 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss23 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 28 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, H, K, L, M, P, R, S, T and Z. The Abyss has 23 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 73 answers in total, 3 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Pun”. Longest: “Rhetorical question”.
- A, P and E are the most common first letters; together they start 47% of the answers.
- 4 answers can be typed more than one way: “Apophasis” counts as Paralipsis.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with A than with any other letter (14). Run through it first.
- Skip Metaphor, Simile and Hyperbole; everybody says them.
- Borrow from a field you know: science, music and sport are full of -ology words, -ship words and rhymes.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a figure of speech”?
- Most people start with Metaphor, Simile, Hyperbole, Irony and Alliteration. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a figure of speech”?
- 73 in all: 7 on The Tip, 14 Below the Surface, 28 in The Deep, 23 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a figure of speech”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Pun” and the longest is “Rhetorical question”.
- Is “Name a figure of speech” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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