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Figures of speech

Authored by Toyuko igarashi

English

9th - 10th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

They don't care about how much you know until they know how much you care

pun

understatement

chiasmus

paradox

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

pun

chiasmus

understatement

paradox

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

"Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love."

pun

chiasmus

understament

paradox

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

"Never let a fool kiss you--or a kiss fool you."

pun

chiasmus

understatement

paradox

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?

pun

chiasmus

understatement

paradox

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

The reversing the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases. This rhetorical device is also referred to as reverse parallelism, antimetabole or syntactical inversion.

pun

chiasmus

understatement

paradox

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

A statement that may seem absurd or contradictory but yet can be true, or at least makes sense.

pun

chiasmus

undersatement

paradox

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