Row 1
What is a reference to someone or something well-known?
What is allusion
What is the contract between what is expected and what actually occurs or is said?
What is irony?
What type of device is used in the following?
I was so frustrated with my homework, that I was pulling my hair out by the handful.
What is hyperbole
What type of device is used in the following?
We will swear loyalty to the crown (crown stands in place of the monarch)
What is metonymy
What type of irony knows more than the character(s) in the story?
What is dramatic irony
What is an exaggeration or overstatement?
What is hyperbole?
What is the using the same words or phrases over and over again?
What is repetition
What type of device is used in the following?
The crickets hummed in the morning over the soft mist on the lake.
1) simile
2) imagery
3)hyperbole
What is imagery
What type of device is used in the following?
The shells screamed when they were launched from the cannon.
What is personification
What type of irony uses sarcasm?
What is verbal irony
What is an appeal to one of the five senses which paints a picture in the mind?
What is imagery
What is a question used to make a point as opposed to to bring about a response?
What is rhetorical question
What type of device is used in the following?
Someone saying, " What nice weather we're having!" in the middle of a thunderstorm.
1) simile
2) irony
3) allusion
What is irony
What type of device is used in the following?
"We have petitioned, we have remonstrated; we have prostrated ourselves"---Patrick Henry
What is repetition
What type of irony is when the outcome is different than when you expected?
What is situational
What is a direct comparison made by saying one thing is another without using the words like or a?
What is a metaphor
What is a comparison made by using the words like or as called?
What is simile
What type of device is used in the following?
The thief's heart was a cold stone.
What is a metaphor
What type of device is used in the following?
Are you kidding me
What is a rhetorical question
What is the repeating of the same grammatical structure called?
What is parallelism
What is the giving of human traits to nonhuman entities?
What is personification
The judge seemed as wise as King Solomon
What is allusion
What is the use of part of something to represent the whole thing?
What is metonymy
What type of device is used in the following?
The tiger was as fast as a race car
What is simile
What is an analogy