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Early on in his address, Mandela says, “...I have no hesitation in saying that each one of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees...” Mandela uses the jacaranda tree as what figure of speech?
What is a symbol?
100
Oh, she was sad, oh, she was sad. She didn't mean to do it. Certain thrills stay tucked in your limbs, go no further than your fingers, move your legs through their paces, but no more. What figure of speech is most heavily used here?
What is personification?
100
Rhetorical figure being used in this selection: "I'd be glad to take the job Mr. Vidrine," said Mr. Donn, thinking to himself Yeah, and I'd also be glad to take a punch upside the head.
What is verbal irony?
100
The nerve of him! (from Harry Potter series) Though a cliche, this figure of speech is also a(n) _____________________.
What is a metonymy? The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.
100
When Hamlet asks, For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, . . .what do you call this sort of question, which does not have a true answer or whose answer is already implied?
What is a rhetorical question?
200
Not a specific figure of speech per se, this type of expression sometimes uses figurative or brief, descriptive statements that contain witty or humorous examples of a erious maxim, opinion, or general truth. “In life there are winners and losers. But the losers don’t know this.”
What is an aphorism?
200
Joy Just when you thought that winter would be here forever, that it could never end, you saw: Amidst the frozen white, a tiny tip of green, first blade of grass, the messenger of spring. What figure of speech is used most strongly here?
What is direct metaphor?
200
The title of the soap opera "As the World Turns" is an implied ________________.
What is simile?
200
Chef Peppiri, his nose twitching as a rabbit's does at the first sign of spring rain, watched as the grease from the hens swirled in golden-red. What figure is being used in this Harry Potter quote?
What is simile?
200
When Hamlet in his suicide soliloquy asserts, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come figure of speech is he using?
What is direct metaphor?
300
An explicit or indirect reference to a well-known fictional, mythological, or historical person, place, or event, outside of a work. These suggest similarities to comparable circumstances in another time or place: "St. John of the Cross himself couldn’t have been more conflicted than Marcus Neiman."
What is allusion?
300
A figure of speech which represents something as being less important than it really is. Often used for ironic effect. Robert Frost’s poem about human hatred, “Fire and Ice”, provides the most famous example when he first compares human hatred to fire, but then says: To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
What is understatement?
300
What rhetorical figure is routinely used in horror movie scripts when there is a monster or slasher lurking nearby and a group of (usually) teenagers decides to split up because it will get them out of danger more quickly?
What is dramatic irony?
300
She threw a sharp, sideways glance at Dumbledore here, as though hoping he was going to tell her something, but he didn’t, so went on. This Harry Potter quote uses what figure of speech?
What is an implied metaphor?
300
If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse; On horror’s head accumulate; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that. What figure of speech is Othello using in his warning to Iago?
What is hyperbole?
400
A News-Story story reports that Jamie Mayo comments that a contract between the City of Monroe and Centurylink is a "win-win situation." He is using a business ____________ to quickly convey a point.
What is an idiom?
400
I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
What is synecdoche? A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).
400
TWO PART ANSWER: The first answer is the way you feel when you read a story. The second answer is the author's attitude toward an event or character, reveals by the author's word choice (diction).
What is mood? What is tone?
400
A figure of speech establishing a striking parallel between two very dissimilar things or situations, often used throughout an entire work or even volume of works--thus most developed in the novel form. In "The Matrix," however, Neo (“new”) being a symbolic character that represents the temptation and victory of Christ over sin establishes this type of large, over-arching figure.
What is a conceit?
400
Hamlet's question, To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? . . .is an example of doubt, which in literature, is called __________________.
What is ambiguity?
500
"As the blind man who said he supposed the colour of scarlet was like the sound of a trumpet. . " (Thackeray, Sketches 669). Used to blend the senses, what sort of figurative or descriptive language is being discussed here?
What is synesthesia?
500
DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me. Besides personification, what rhetorical figure is being used in this poem by John Donne when he addresses Death?
What is apostrophe?
500
In one Futurama script, Zapp Brannigan says "If we can hit that bullseye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate." What (faulty) figure is this?
What is a mixed metaphor?
500
Type of story, dating back to medieval morality plays, in which the characters and their actions represent general truths about human conduct. The characters often represent abstract concepts, such as faith, innocence, or evil. I.e., George Orwell's Animal Farm, “The Matrix” in film.
What is allegory?
500
"I always lie" is a ____________________ because if it is true it must be false"
What is a paradox?