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what is a juxtaposition?
this thing is not real
two things being compared and contrasted
something being exaggerated
Two things being compared using like or as
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What is an example of a synecdoche
Gray Beard
Leopard Pants
Car
Windowed
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A hortative sentence exhorts and urges
true
false
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what is an example of parallelism?
the car is pretty
What is the time?
where I lived, and what I lived for
I ate the pizza at two o'clock
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syntax is used to convey meaning and achieve certain artistic affects
false
true
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What is an example of a metaphor
I ate at Taco Bell
Bob is a couch potato
Bob built Big Buildings
I am like George Washington
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what is an example of a compund sentence
Because I stubbed my toe, and I went to the hospital.
Because I stubbed my toe, I had to go to the hospital.
I stubbed my toe, and I went to the hospital.
Because I stubbed my toe.
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What is an example of inversion
Soldier Strong
Expensive boat
Good cars
Nice old men
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what is a simple sentence
Uses one dependent clause
Uses two independent clause
Uses a dependent clause and a independent clause
Uses one independent clause
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what word is an example of an archaic diction
Stoppeth
Nice
Stop
Hi
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what is a complex sentence
this is not a real type of sentence
uses an independent clause
Uses a dependent and independent clause
uses two independent clauses
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What is being personified? The wind whispered through the dry glass.
Wind
Whispered
Glass
Dry
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What is a simile
Compares and contrasts two things
Compares two things using like or as
Alliteration
Compares two things
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A rhetorical question implies the answer
False
True
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What is an allusion
Uses like or as to compare two or more things
No such thing
Uses a lack of conjunctions to list things
Brief reference to a person place or thing
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what is an example of polysyndeton
I like pie
The best Food is Pizza
I ate pancakes, eggs, bacon, biscuits
I baked with the sugar, and the flour, and the eggs.
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An antimetabole involves repeating a phrase in reverse order
False
True
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What is an example of diction
Formal
Wierd
Nasty
Awkward
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what is an oxymoron
two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect
uses an independent clause
two ideas are compared using like or as
not a real thing
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What is an example of an alliteration?
I ate at Mcdonalds
The crazy canary went cookoo when Connor came calling.
How is the temperature today?
I went to the store.
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what is a cumulative sentence also known as
Compound-Complex
Simple
Periodic
Loose
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what is a type of style
Window
Alliteration
Complex sentence
Persuasive
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A hypophora asks a question but doesn't answer it
False
True
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what is an example of an imperative sentence
How was your day?
pass the salt!
Good job!
that was nice!
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What is an asyndeton
uses a single independent clause
creates a list using a lot of conjunctions
Creates a list without using conjunctions
compares two things using like or as
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Father: " We are going on Vacation." Son; " That's Great." What is the tone?
Melancholy
Gloom
Angry
Cheerful
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An antithesis is when two opposite ideas are put together in order to create a comparing effect
false
true
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what is a periodic sentence?
a sentence that has the main clause at the beginning.
a sentence that only has one independent clause.
a sentence that has the main clause at the end.
a sentence that has two dependent clauses.
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What is a hyperbole
An inanimate object is given human qualities
Two things being compared using like or as
A sentence that only uses an independent clause
Something being exaggerated
