General Education- English Part 1

General Education- English Part 1

by Jeffrey Ginez

Multiple Choice

1. What figure of speech is: “A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the earth’s sweet flowing breast?”

• Irony

• Apostrophe

• Personification

• Hyperbole

​Figure of Speech

​Alliteration – using words that begin with the same sound “She sells seashells”

• Anaphora – uses a specific clause at the beginning of each sentence or point to make a statement “Good night and good luck!”

• Assonance – focuses on the vowel sounds in a phrase, repeating them over and over to great effect. “I like Ike”

• Hyperbole – an exaggeration that adds a bit humor. “It was as big as a mountain!”

• Irony – use of a word in a literal sense that debunks what has just been said “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”

• Synecdoche – one thing is meant to represent the whole “ABCs for alphabet” “new set of wheels for car”

​Figure of Speech

​Metaphor – direct comparison between two things “My hear is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”

• Simile – comparison between to different things “Life is like a box of chocolates.”

• Metonymy – a word that has a very similar meaning can be used for another “crown” for “royalty; “lab coats” for “scientists”

• Onomatopoeia – use of word that actually sounds like what it means “hiss”

• Paradox – completely contradicts itself in the same sentence “War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery.”

• Personification – giving an inanimate object the qualities of a living thing “The tree quaked with fear as the wind approached.”

​Figure of Speech

​Pun – play on words that uses different senses of the word, or different sounds that make up the word, to create something fun or interesting. “You can tune a guitar but you can’t tuna fish”

• Understatement – the thing discussed is made to seem much less important than it really is. “I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny tumor on the brain.”

• Antithesis – a contradiction that pits two ideas against each other in a balanced way. “You’re easy on the eyes, hard on the heart”

• Euphemism – Words used to soften the message “passed away in place of died or killed”; “misunderstanding instead of fight or argument.

• Oxymoron – Puts two words together that seems to contradict each other. “military intelligence” “real phony” “Civil war”

Multiple Choice

2. The information clerk stays ______ the phone most of the time.

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