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  • "The concert was amazing. The music was amazing. The crowd's energy was amazing." is an example of ____.
    repetition
  • "You are not wrong." is an example of ___
    litotes
  • What is a metaphor?
    a comparison between two things that does NOT use like or as
  • Is the sky blue? - Is an example of a
    rhetorical question
  • "Her laughter was like music" is an example of ______.
    simile
  • "Her smile was a ray of sunshine" is an example of a _____
    metaphor
  • "The bee buzzed by my ear" is an example of _____ .
    onomatopoeia
  • "The wind whispered through the trees" is an example of _______.
    personification
  • What is onomatopoeia?
    a figure of speech in which words imitate the sound they represent
  • "Every day, every night, every moment, we will remember" is an example of ______
    anaphora
  • What is a rhetorical question?
    Questions that are not meant to be answered.
  • What is irony?
    involves a contrast between appearance and reality, often where the opposite of what is expected happens.
  • What is hyperbole?
    an extreme exaggeration
  • What is anaphora?
    repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences
  • What is repetition?
    using the same word or phrase multiple times
  • What is a simile?
    a comparison using like or as
  • What is litotes?
    uses understatement to emphasize a point by negating its opposite
  • What is personification?
    Giving traits to non-living objects
  • "She came, she saw, she conquered" is an example of ________
    parallelism
  • Give an example of a simile
    ANSWERS MAY VARY
  • "The firefighter's house burned down" is an example of ___
    irony
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