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guess that figurative speech
definitions
true or false
100
This is an example of ... Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day
What is parallelism?
100
Is a poetic structure of words to convey how something sounds.
What is onomatopoeia
100
when using a metaphor u must use like or as even in an extended one.
What is false?
200
This is an example of... The speech begins with “Five score years ago…”, a reference to the Gettysburg Address and ends with the “words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'
What is an allusion?
200
The commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter.
What is alliteration?
200
This is personification... The flower begged for water.
What is true?
300
This is an example of... And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing.
What is an hyperbole?
300
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
300
An allusion is where the magician tricks your eyes?
What is false ?
400
This is an example of... No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream
What is a simile?
400
In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.
What is assonance?
400
"I fell like a million bucks" that statement is a simile.
What is false ?
500
This is an example of ... The flower begged for water.
What is personification?
500
Also known as a conceit or sustained metaphor, is when an author exploits a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked vehicles, tenors, and grounds throughout a poem or story. (for this question you must give the complete answer NO PARTIAL if this happens then it's wrong )
What is extended metaphor?
500
Figurative language is a waste of our time and the speech decoding just makes you hate it more it irrelevant!!!
What is false?