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Multiple Choice
What is it?
What is it? - Part II
What is it? - Part III
100
Extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
100
Frankie franticly frolicks for fifty flowers. A) Metaphor B) Alliteration C) Hyperbole
What is alliteration?
100
BAM! SPLASH!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
White as snow?
What is a simile?
100
I ate a million pieces of cake.
What is hyperbole?
200
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The walls began to walk towards me. A) Personification B) Onomatopoeia C) Irony D) Idiom
What is personification?
200
My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.
What is a personification?
200
The sun was a furnace.
What is a metaphor?
200
"Why are fish so smart? They live in schools." "Why did the kid bring scissors to school? So he could cut class."
What is a pun?
300
The opposite of what you would expect?
What is irony?
300
Don't bite the hand that feeds you. A) Metaphor B) Simile C) Idiom D) Hyperbole
What is an idiom?
300
I heard it straight from the horse's mouth?
What is an idiom?
300
The wind whistled throughout the night.
What is personification?
300
My mother is a bright light in a dark room.
What is metaphor?
400
Giving something that is not human, human traits.
What is personification?
400
He ran as fast as a cheetah? A.) simile B.) metaphor C.) pun
What is simile?
400
I love melting mashing marshmallows.
What is alliteration?
400
She slept like she had just bitten a poison apple.
What is allusion (to Snow White)?
400
This was a piece of cake!
What is idiom?
500
Something that can have two meanings at the same time. Usually funny.
What is a pun?
500
The duck said to the bartender, "Put it on my bill." A.) simile B.) understatement C.) pun
What is a pun?
500
I'm fine; it was a tiny heart attack.
What is understatement?
500
A roofing company that doesn't have a roof.
What is irony?
500
Peter Piper picked peppers.
What is alliteration?