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Language Features and Parts of Speech
Language Features and Parts of Speech
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An exaggeration is a:
Stressed text
Parabole
Nobole
Hyperbole
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Is "chiasmus" a figure of speech?
False
True
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What is personification?
Giving inhuman objects human characteristics
Giving live objects dead characteristics
Giving dead objects live characteristics
Giving human objects inhuman characteristics
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Which language feature makes something harsh or difficult less offensive
You
Superlative
Me
Euphemism
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Nick needed new notebooks is an example of:
Alliteration
Anecdote
LeTtEr RhYmE
Assonance
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Colloquialism is specialised language to a particular group
False
True
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With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right.
Anaphora
Irony
Imperative
Iogorrhea
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A Synecdoche is:
A part of speech which represents a whole
A figure of speech which is made part of a whole
Some word made on-the-spot by Ian
An indirect relation to a well-known person
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An imperative is usually spoken in a forceful manner
False
True
10
Irony is:
Iron
Iron words
An opposite meaning
A similar meaning
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What part of speech links nouns to parts of sentences?
Metaphor
Preposition
Adverb
Noun
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"That stuffed suit with the briefcase is a poor excuse for a salesman," the manager said angrily. Is an example of what:
Metonymy
Mutonymy
Motonymy
Matonymy
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What is a adjective?
Describes verbs
Describes interjections
Describes adjectives
Describes nouns
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What is a noun?
Naming word
Names people, places, things, qualities
Activities, areas, individuals, items
Name
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"A million dollars is no small chunk of change" is what part of speech?
Euphemism
Anaphora
Litotes
Synecdoche
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Is "Pathetic fallacy" a form of personification?
False
True
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What is a simile?
Comparing two things with 'same' 'different'
Comparing two things with 'like' or 'as'
Comparing two things with 'dislike' or 'like'
Comparing two things with 'as' or 'after'
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An example of a verb is:
Wikipedia
Google
Feature
Straft
19
What is a microphone?
True
False
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An example of a interjection is:
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!
Example?
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Them?
