Organise the following words/phrases from most to least specific:
1.Tulips, Vegetation, Plants, Turkish Tulips, Flowers.
What are turkish tulips, tulips, flowers, plants, vegetation
100
What figure of speech is this:
Katy chortled like a boss.
What is a simile
100
This is an example of ____?
"That's him all right! Only younger, thinner, and taller."
What is Vagueness
200
Fragrant is a ______ connotation.
What is positive.
200
The least formal type of language
What are slang words
200
Words that do not refer to individual things
What are general words.
200
What figure of speech is this:
The lakes surface glistened delicately with algae spread across its surface like lace.
What is personification.
200
Diamond in the rough is an example of ______
What is triteness
300
What a word implies.
What is connotation.
300
Using “concur” instead of “agree”
What is an example of formal versus popular language
300
A general term may be made more specific with a...
What is a modifier (that restricts to a particular member of the group or class).
300
What figure of speech is this:
The sun beamed down on the wings of Apollo.
What is an Allusion.
300
Define a "mixed metaphor"
What are metaphors that combine two or more incompatible images in a single figure -- these are especially ineffective
400
What is the denotation of the word “putrid”?
What is having the odor of decaying flesh.
400
Language purposely used in writing to express natural conversation
What is colloquial language
400
refer to qualities shared by many people (width, size, shape...)
What is abstract
400
What figure of speech is this:
The night was my cloak of invisibility.
What is a metaphor.
400
affair, awful, business are examples of ______?
What are utility words?
500
Is the connotation of “lackadaisical”?
What is negative.
500
“Awfully,” “kind of,” “lots of”
What are examples of colloquialisms
500
Particular things or qualities that can be perceived by your senses (details of appearance, sounds...)
What is concrete
500
What figure of speech is this:
The energy levels of an atom can be imagined as rungs of a ladder, with electrons on either one or another, but never between rungs.
What is an Analogy.
500
The three characteristics of jargon
What is highly abstract diction, conspicuous wordiness, excessive use of the passive voice