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Nonfiction -- Literary Devices-Review #2
Nonfiction -- Literary Devices-Review #2
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8th grade reading SOL terms...
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The blank sheet of paper looked back at me, laughing at my lack of ideas for the essay. This is
Personification
Metaphor
Onomotapoeia
Alliteration
2
The quote, "Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing..." contains an example of...
Assonance
Metaphor
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
3
The white sand met with the azure-blue water, melting away into the ocean like a candle...
That's my favorite idiom!
This has personification!
That's some good imagery!
Oh. I see the irony here.
4
This is an exaggeration. For example, "I'm going to die if I have to take another bite..."
Onomotapoeia
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
5
If Mrs. Taylor, your English teacher, misspells a word...
That's situational irony.
That's dramatic irony.
That's verbal irony.
That's not irony.
6
When words sound the same. It's used a lot in poetry and hip hop music...
Lime
Rhyme
Thyme
Time
7
This text structure is used to explain how one thing happening leads to another thing happening
Chronological
Cause/Effect
Compare/Contrast
Problem/Solution
8
This text structure poses a possible answer to a difficult situation
Cause/Effect
Compare/Contrast
Chronological
Problem/Solution
9
You know something a character doesn't (like a wife killing her husband with a leg of lamb)...
That's verbal irony.
That's not irony.
That's dramatic irony.
That's situational irony.
10
"Oink! Moo! Woof!" That's what a pigcowdog sounds like, but these are also examples of...
Irony
Onomotapoeia
Simile
Alliteration
11
When you say, "Dude, I totally love English class!" but don't actually mean it...
That's not irony.
That's verbal irony.
That's dramatic irony.
That's situational irony.
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This text structure is used to explain how things happened in order
Problem/Solution
Compare/Contrast
Chronological
Cause/Effect
13
Derm means...
Acne
Life
Skin
Needle
14
"Did you see LeBron play last night? He was on fire!" This quote contains...
A simile
Hyperbole
An idiom
A metaphor
15
Cide/Cise means...
Hang, Weigh
Kill, Cut
Study of
Cut, Kill
16
He is an old toad.
That's a metaphor!
He's a toad? That's personification!
That's some dramatic irony!
Oh, I love similes!
17
BIO means
Life
Science
Study of
Machine
18
Similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole are all types of...
Comparisons
Analogies
Figurative Language
Torture
19
Do you remember what assonance means?
Rhyming with vowels.
Stop cursing, please.
Rhyming with consonants.
Nope.
20
AUTO means...
time
cut, kill
self
life
21
You're like fingernails on a chalkboard. You make my head hurt so bad...
Neither! Personification!
Oh! Metaphor!
No! A simile!
22
This text structure is used to explain the similarities and differences between two things
Cause/Effect
Compare/Contrast
Problem/Solution
Chronological
23
Bark is to Dog as Meow is to Cat ... this is an _________.
Nursery Rhyme
Analogy
Root Word
Simile
24
Graph means...
Rite
Wright
Right
Write
25
Something that stands for something else is considered a...
Simile
Idiom
Idol
Symbol
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Chron means...
Good
Time
Study of
Life
