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Figure of speech

Authored by Rufus Lowe

English

11th Grade

CCSS covered

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Figure of speech
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This figure of speech make a direct comparison using two unlike things.

simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This part of speech give human characteristic to non human entities.

simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

These parts of speech uses words or phrases to contradict themselves.

simile/metaphor
oxymoron/paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A figure of speech is...

a familiar expression
a non-literal way of saying something
what the author literally means
something only writers use

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Figures of speech mean exactly what the words say.

True
False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Two figures of speech that involve comparisons are

simile and metaphor
hyperbole and simile
personification and idiom
alliteration and metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Figure of speech in which the author makes an obvious exaggeration.

idiom
simile
hyperbole
alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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