Week 5: Vocabulary Quiz

A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using like or as.

Example: The airplane soared like an eagle.

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

A figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common.

Example: Her tears were a river flowing down her cheeks.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

When you give an animal or object qualities or abilities that only a human can have.

Example: Lightning danced across the sky.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Phrases that have a meaning that is very different from its individual parts.

Example: It cost an arm and a leg

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

A gift or talent for accidentally finding the perfect solution or making a happy discovery.

Sentence: The lottery is something one wins by _______.

• Flabbergasted

• Serendipity

• Conformity

Compliance with standards, rules, or laws.

• Simile

• Conformity

• Flabbergasted

Greatly surprised or astonished.

• Conformity

• Flabbergasted

• Puritan

People who wanted to “purify,” or simplify, the Church of England.

• Idiom

• Puritan

• Serendipity

Ethos appeals to....

• Credibility

• Emotion

• Logic

Pathos appeals to...

• Credibility

• Emotion

• Logic