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  • What figurative language is this?
    Metaphor
    Onomatopoeia
    Alliteration
    Idiom
  • What is an analogy?
    The use of symbols
    Illustration or comic strip containing a political message
    comparison of two or more things based on their relationship
    Labeling objects in a cartoon.
  • Giving human characteristics like emotions, feelings or actions to a non-human object or animal is?
    Onomatopoeia
    Personificiation
    Metaphor
    Humanification
  • Which one is an adage?
    Apples are red and round.
    The blue sky is pretty.
    Leaves can turn brown.
    An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
  • What is an Oxymoron?
    A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word
    A figure of speech in contradictory terms
    Sometimes Things Get Complicated
    A Simile
  • What figurative language is this?
    Metaphor
    Simile
    Personification
    Idiom
  • An exaggeration is?
    Hyperbole
    Simile
    Interjection
    Personification
  • Parable
    a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth
    a simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson
    a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth
    a short story conveying a moral
  • What does this idiom mean?
    hurry up!
    hold on while you're riding a horse!
    be patient!
    act like a cowboy
  • Define analogy.
    a text that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning
    comparison between 2 things for the purpose of clarification
    a metaphor
    a simile
  • Choose the oxymoron:
    Between jobs
    Awfully lucky
    I am nobody.
    Best of all time
  • Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a phrase is?
    Assonance
    Personificiation
    Alliteration
    Hyperbole
  • Which are examples of figurative language?
    paraphrasing, underlining, highlighting
    simile, metaphor, personification
    verbs, nouns, and adjectives
    integrity, persistence, ownership
  • Words that sound like what they are?
    Alliteration
    Simile
    Personification
    Onomatopoeia
  • What is a parable?
    A parable is a simple story used to illustrate a moral.
    A parable is A story told by the Apostles
    A parable is another word for the Bible
    A parable is a type of fairytale
  • Hold your horses," is a kind of?
    Personification
    Onomatopoeia
    Idiom
    Simile
  • What is Assonance?
    Repetition of vowel sound in words
    the symbolic meaning of an item
    repetition of consonant sound in words
    A reference to another text
  • What figurative language is this?
    Personification
    Metaphor
    Onomatopoeia
    Idiom
  • Definition of paradox?
    Statement that is more true than false
    The exact opposite in what is said vs. what is meant
    Statement that is more false than true
    Statement that can be seen as true and false simultaneously
  • Practice makes perfect," is an example of?
    Personification
    Onomatopoeia
    Adage
    Idiom
  • The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables" is?
    Idiom
    Metaphor
    Assonance
    Alliteration
  • What is an adage?
    A long, well-known saying. It expresses an opinion
    A place upstairs to store unused things
    A concise, well-known saying. It expresses a common truth or observation
    A way to add your age
  • Compares two unlike things directly is?
    Simile
    Personification
    Metaphor
    Synecdoche
  • What is figurative language?
    words don't actually mean what they say
    shapely language
    words that are confusing and stupid
    literal language
  • A comparison using "like" or "as" is a/an?
    Interjection
    Simile
    Onomatopoeia
    Idiom
  • What figurative language is this?
    Simile
    Personification
    Idiom
    Metaphor
  • The following line contains assonance.
    "And the stars never rise, but I see the bright eyes..."
    "Of the beautiful Annabel Lee..."
    "So that her highborn kinsman came..."
    "Chilling my Annabel Lee..."
  • what is an idiom?
    a comparison between two different thing
    giving human characteristics to something nonhuman
    an expression whos meaning is not predictable
    a comparison using like or as