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Exam Review: Figurative Language
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"his body is the ready servant of his will"
personification
simile
hyperbole
metaphor
2
What figure of speech is
bores me to tears
?
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
3
Which is NOT a trope
litotes
oxymoron
metaphor
assonance
4
"Parting is such sweet sorrow"
oxymoron
hyperbole
litotes
imagery
5
A combination of two contradictory or opposite words to create an effect
anastrophe
oxymoron
paradox
metonymy
6
What figure of speech is
the book dropped from his hands like lead
?
personification
metaphor
hyperbole
simile
7
Two types of
irony
are
onomatopoeia and synecdoche
verbal and situational
assonance and litotes
alliteration and apostrophe
8
"Pain and pleasure would be at this elbow telling him to do this and avoid that"
hyperbole
personification
simile
metaphor
9
Figures of Speech are divided into
similes and metaphors
tropes and schemes
poetry and prose
iambic pentameter
10
Repetition of sounds at the ends of words in a line
Rhyme
Poetry
Imagery
Assonance
11
"His terrible whiskers flitted round me in silent criticism"
syecdoche
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
12
Two figures of speech that involve comparisons are
personification and hyperbole
metonymy and metaphor
simile and metonymy
simile and metaphor
13
"Rosie was lonelier than anyone had ever been before, except for Typhoid Mary"
simile
hyperbole
metaphor
personification
14
The first step in interpreting a simile or metaphor is to
reason out the author's intended meaning.
none of the above
decide the important way in which two things might be alike
determine the two things that are being compared.
15
A figure of speech is
a nonliteral way of saying something
what the author literally means
a familiar expression or saying
something only writers use
16
"scorches the thighs of a sliding player as if he were being seared by hot steel?"
hyperbole
simile
personification
metaphor
17
What figure of speech is
The field sits breathless?
simile
personification
metaphor
hyperbole
18
The author makes an obvious exaggeration for emphasis
metaphor
metonymy
hyperbole
simile
19
A closely related term or symbol is substituted for what it represents
metonymy
hyperbole
metaphor.
personification
20
When poets use words that imitate sounds
Consonance
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
21
"life became one long party"
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
simile
22
"whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength,"
simile
hyperbole
metonymy
metaphor
23
Figurative language is used to create word pictures in the mind of the reader
Metaphor
Imagery
Simile
Personification
24
"I touch grass, take off my shoes, but find it is like walking on a row of toothbrushes"
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
metonymy
25
"But Nature is patient"
personification
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
26
A repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants
Personification
Alliteration
Assonance
Pun
27
Nonhuman or nonliving things are spoken about as if they were human
personification
metonymy
hyperbole
metaphor
28
Any element of language (a sound, a word, a phrase, a sentence) more than once for emphasis?
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Assonance
Repetition
