Allegory, alliteration, anaphora, antiphrase, antithesis, comparison, enumeration, hyperbole, metaphor, oxymoron, personification… Figures of speech make French a rich and colorful language and allow an idea to be expressed more forcefully. As a reminder, the metaphor is a comparison without a comparative tool, the allegory personifies an abstract idea, the oxymoron is the juxtaposition of two words with opposite meanings, the periphrasis allows us to evoke a thing indirectly, the personification lends human qualities to inanimate beings or animals and hyperbole denotes exaggeration. Although the French are quite good at grammar, it is not always easy to identify the figures of speech that may be hidden in certain sentences. After masculine or feminine words, words that only exist in the plural or even words that are written with or without diaeresis, Current wife invites you to test your knowledge on a subject which also includes its share of pitfalls.
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Do you think you are good at grammar? Current wife has put together a quiz for you, with 10 questions, which will be easy only for people good in this field. To test yourself, nothing could be simpler: just choose one of the three proposals, find out if you have the right answer or not, and continue with the next question. You will then be able to know your score at the end of our quiz and share it with your friends on social networks to make them want to also test their knowledge of figures of speech! According to you, what figure(s) of speech are found in the sentence: “To the wall” ? And in the sentences: “The nimble wheel is white and the distaff is black” And “What a bloody victory, a palace facing a cabin” ? If you have the right answers, let yourself be tempted our quiz…