English 9 Vocabulary Quiz#1

related to the brain.

• Municipal

• Cerebral

• Hyperbole

• Omniscient

All knowing. The ability to have perspectives of everything and everyone.

• Municipal

• Cerebral

• Omniscient

• Trope

a common or overused theme or device.

• Municipal

• Cerebral

• Omniscient

• Trope

relating to a city or town or its governing body.

• Municipal

• Cerebral

• Omniscient

• Trope

prone to or liable.

• Hyperbole

• Susceptible

• Sarcasm

• Irony

the use of harsh words to deride and criticize; Sometimes, sarcasm is apparent only by way something is said rather than the actual words that are used.

• Hyperbole

• Susceptible

• Sarcasm

• Irony

a perception of inconsistency, sometimes humorous, in which the significance and understanding of a statement or event is changed by its context.

• Hyperbole

• Susceptible

• Sarcasm

• Irony

exaggeration for emphasis; overstatement.

• Hyperbole

• Susceptible

• Sarcasm

• Irony

a barrier or obstacle; something that interferes with movement or progress.

• Fiction

• Impediment

• Nomadic

• Metaphor

a comparison of two things that are basically dissimilar in which one is described in terms of the other.

• Fiction

• Impediment

• Nomadic

• Metaphor