Literary Terms Benchmark Practice

Which figure of speech is used in this text?

The real estate agent said the house was a real fixer-upper, and the price reflected just how much fixing up might be involved.

• hyperbole

• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which figure of speech is used in this text?

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

--attributed to John Lennon

• paradox

• euphemism

Which of the following is the best example of synecdoche?

• Describing a worker as a pair of hands

• Naming a child after its grandfather

• Painting a picture of a landscape

• Comparing the flavor of two candles

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Juxtaposition means:

• A side-by-side arrangement

• The act of delaying

• The scene of any event or action

• A change for the better

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Boom! Buzz! Oink! When a word imitates the sound it refers to, call it an example of __________.

• Paradox

• Juxtaposition

• Onomatopoeia

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Diction means:

• Nonsense

• Opinion

• Personification

• Wording

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following could be an anagram for “dormitory”?

• Territory

• Ormitoryday

• Dirty room

• Dormant story

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Colloquialism means:

• A prediction of celestial events

• An expression that seeks to imitate informal speech

• A document executed to confer legal rights

• An unfortunate occurrence

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Irony means:

• Rule of personal conduct

• A threat or the act of threatening

• A passage or expression that is quoted or cited

• Incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Fill in the blank:

_________ means referring to something by one of its attributes or by using a related word. If a reporter notes that “the White House released a statement,” that’s ________: “the White House” means the President or the President’s administration.

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Anagram

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4