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IT 8th grade Figurative Language
IT 8th grade Figurative Language
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Review of literary devices and figurative language
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Something not taken for its literal meaning...
idiom
personfication
alliteration
oxymoron
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"It was a dark and stormy night and I felt that the dead were watching" is example of....
metaphor
tone
mood
personification
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This is an example of...
alliteration
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
4
This is an example of...
hyperbole
oxymoron
idiom
personification
5
The sun shone brightly on the ocean's beautiful sapphire blue surf is..
Tone
Mood
onomatopoeia
metaphor
6
This is...
situational irony
dramatic irony
verbal irony
7
Lazy Linda likes to lick lollipops at Lake Lawn is...
metaphor
personification
alliteration
oxymororon
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When we know something that a character does not is an example of...
situational irony
verbal irony
dramatic irony
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This is an example of...
hyperbole
personification
simile
idiom
10
This is...
alliteration
metaphor
personification
oxymoron
11
Alliteration is...
Words whose sounds imitate their meanings
Repeated sounds at the beginning of words
An exaggeration
A comparison using like or as
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This is an example of...
situational irony
verbal irony
dramatic irony
13
When he "kicks the bucket", we will get his money is an example of...
personification
oxymoron
idiom
metaphor
14
This is an example of...
metaphor
idiom
personification
oxymoron
15
We will continue to fight, continue to make changes, continue to be a better nation is:
anaphora
pun
euphemism
oxymoron
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"Bitter sweet" is an example of...
personification
metaphor
hyperbole
oxymoron
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This is...
oxymoron
metaphor
idiom
personification
18
The company is downsizing; I hope I don't get let go.
oxymoron
anaphora
pun
euphemism
19
This is an example of...
verbal irony
dramatic irony
situational irony
20
"The football player was a beast" is a ...
simile
idiom
personification
metaphor
21
"She sells sea shells by the sea shore" is...
alliteration
metaphor
oxymoron
simile
22
Irony where the opposite happens of what one expects...
situational
verbal
dramatic
23
"The sun smiled upon us" is...
idiom
metaphor
simile
personification
24
"Ever since I met him, I knew he was evil..."
oxymoron
author's tone
mood
personification
25
When you say the opposite of what you mean is an example of ....
situational irony
dramatic irony
verbal irony
26
"I was SO angry that HE got the job and not me!"
authors' tone
onomatopoeia
mood
hyperbole
27
Sodapop is a Greek god... is
metaphor
personification
idiom
simile
28
This is...
alliteration
personification
onomatopoeia
metaphor
29
Giving human qualities to non-human things
personification
metaphor
simile
oxymoron
30
The author's attitude toward a a character or subject in a story.
mood
oxymoron
tone
sassy
31
Mrs. Machala is as good as gold is...
metaphor
personification
oxymoron
simile
32
This is an example of...
dramatic irony
verbal irony
situational irony
33
"His brain is a computer" is...
oxymoron
simile
metaphor
personifcation
34
This is an example of...
oxymoron
idiom
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
35
This is...
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
simile
personification
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Hyperbole is...
Giving human qualities to non-human things
A comparison NOT using like or as
An exaggeration
Something not meant to be understood literally
