Watch Your (Figurative) Language
Talk Me Into It
It's All Foreign To Me
Revisited
Like Poetry To My Ears
Rhyme Time
100
The street was like a frying pan is an example of this type of literary device?
What is a simile
100
Mary Sue Middleton, star of televison's "Ain't that Hilarious?" and author of My Life as a Superstar, says that Solves-A-Lot Puzzles helped her get into college! What are you waiting for? Buy Solves-A-Lot magazines, and join the thousands who are getting smarter every day! The two persuasive strategies present in this blurb. a) testimonial and false analogy b) testimonial and bandwagon c) bandwagon and appeal to fear d) personal attack and testimonial
What is testimonial and bandwagon
100
A conversation repeated verbatim will be repeated this way
What is word for word?
100
A narrative song or poem like "The Highway Man" is this form of poetry
What is a ballad?
100
The sentence that contains a metaphor: a) "Although some of the girls had set up camp here hundreds of times, Lisa was still a bashful rappit, jumping at the slightests sound from the gathering dark." b) "her father was the local park ranger, and he'd certainly never encountered anything dangerous near the lake." c) The collective gasp made by the six girls was like a noisy burst of wind." d) "Shelia started to ask if somoen was there, but she trembled like a fawn and couldn't speak."
What is A
200
jumbo shrimp, baby grand, and beautiful disaster are each examples of this type of figurative language.
What is an oxymoron?
200
If you go out with that boy tonight you will be pregnant by the time you are fifteen with three kids by twenty one and you will be living in a van down by the river! This is an example of what persuasive technique?
What is slippery slope?
200
Folks in Maycomb like keeping things just the way they were which is an example of this foreign phrase. a) quid pro quo b) id est c) caveat emptor d) status quo
What is d?
200
Odysseus' adventures with the Cyclop are a part of this long type of poem of a hero and his men.
What is an epic?
200
Use the Poem on p. 188 to answer the following. The sound device used in this poem a) alliteration b) an ABAA rhyme scheme c) slant rhyme d) no rhyme scheme
What is slant rhyme?
300
An "endless journey" is an example of this literary device
What is hyperbole?
300
Use the ad on page 83 to answer the following: Who the intended audience for this ad might be a) young children b) high-school students c) adults d) the elderly
What is B?
300
A person who is considered avant-garde is this
What is forward thinking.
300
Shakespeare and Poe are both experts at this 14 line poem that follows the ababcdcdefefgg pattern.
What is a sonnet?
300
Of the following choices it is the one that BEST demonstrates alliteration a) uffish thought b) vorpal sword c) tugley wood d) tumtum tree
What is tumtum tree?
400
A close shave, walking around on eggshells, throwing your friend under the bus, and hanging on tenter hooks are all examples of this literary device?
What is an idiom?
400
Don't you want to stay healthy like the hundreds of students who eat in the school cafeteria would be an example of this type of persusaive technique?
What is BANDWAGON!
400
We finally covered the cage because the parrot repeated the same phrase to this sickening degree
What is ad nauseum?
400
The words that best show an example of alliteration: a) "horror they outpour" b) "Danger ebbs and flows" c) "talke their terror tells" d) "Yet the ear"
What is C?
400
Of the following, it is the option that shows the rhyme scheme pattern of the entire poem. a) ABAB b) ABCD c) ABBA D)AABC
What is ABAB?
500
"The moon was shining sulkily because she thought the sun had no business to be there after the day was done. It's very rude of him, she said, to come and spoil the fun." These lines from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" are examples of this literary device.
What is personification?
500
The average number of diners each week was 520 this past December, but that number had declined to an average of 460 this past March. It seems more and more studenat are disregarding their health; these people need to value their personal well being. This is an example of which persuasive technique? a) bandwagon b) testimonial c) loaded language d) misuse of statistics
What is D?
500
Which shows the BEST etymology for the term faux pas? a) [orig.Fr.faux 'false+pas 'step'] b) [orig. ME. faute 'lack failing'] c) [orig.L facies 'form, appearance, face'] d) [orig. OE. fagian 'make or be glad']
What is a?
500
THe words that BEST demonstrate onomatopoeia? a)"clang, and clash, and roar" b) bells, bells, bells" c) "palpitating air" d) "of Despair!"
What is a?
500
Of the following words it is the one that best demonstrates onomatopoeia? a) day b) bemish c)t'was d) galumphing
What is galumphing?
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