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Figurative Language
Poetry
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"The engine purred" is an example of:
A metaphor
100
The repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or end of words.
Consonance
100
The author of "Lord of the Flies."
William Golding
100
To be "furtive" is to be:
Sneaky; sly
100
The antagonist in "The Most Dangerous Game."
General Zaroff
200
"I had a ton of homework" is an example of:
A hyperbole
200
A rhyme in the middle of a line.
Internal Rhyme
200
What is "Lord of the Flies" an allegory for?
The Cold War
200
"Assent" belongs to these two parts of speech.
Noun and Verb
200
The protagonist in "The Scarlet Ibis."
Brother
300
When the author gives a non-human thing human wants, desires and needs.
Anthropomorphism
300
The meter that Shakespeare most commonly wrote in.
Iambic Pentameter
300
The year Elie Wiesel was taken from his home to go Auschwitz
1944
300
A predilection is a/an:
preference towards something.
300
Ms. Thomas' tortoises' names are:
No Name and Scalia
400
Offer an example of an apostrophe as it appears within literature (not grammar).
Teacher judgment.
400
The "emotional baggage" of a word.
Connotation
400
The judge who chewed cigars in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Judge Taylor
400
If someone is irascible they are:
easily provoked to anger
400
The number of novels Harper Lee has published.
Two
500
The main difference between metaphor and metonymy.
Metaphors compare unlike things. Metonymy is between two closely related things.
500
The author of "My Papa's Waltz."
Theodore Roethke
500
The name of the child that is constantly crying in "Lord of the Flies."
Percival
500
"Specious" means:
pleasing to the eye, but deceptive
500
"When I walked through the hall with my cart, it was like the parting of the Red Sea." This is an example of a simile and ___________.
Allusion