CFU: Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is used here?

Chae Eun swore she would never go back to Newton, but I told her she should never say never. The city might be a very different place in ten years.

• Euphemism

• Paradox

• Metaphor

• Personification

What type of figurative language is used here?

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• Euphemism

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Allusion

What type of figurative language is used here?

The city of Manila is currently experiencing a minor crisis. Its sanitation workers are on strike, and the garbage is piling up in the streets.

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

• Metaphor

What type of figurative language is used here?

The scientists were able to provide an exact estimate of the time it will take for the asteroid to hit Earth, which is 15 years.

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

• Hyperbole

• Personification

What type of figurative language is used here?

Harlem

By Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

      Does it dry up

      like a raisin in the sun?

      Or fester like a sore—

      And then run?

      Does it stink like rotten meat?

      Or crust and sugar over—

      like a syrupy sweet?

      Maybe it just sags

      like a heavy load.

      Or does it explode?

• It uses allusion because the "dream" is a reference to the American Dream, which was deferred from the African Americans.

• It uses anaphora through the repetition of the phrase "does it". This repetition creates a sense of rhythm and emphasis in the poem.

• It uses similes in the poem by comparing the deferred dream to "a raisin in the sun", "a sore", "a rotten meat", etc.

• It uses a rhetorical question to provoke thought and discussion about the consequences of deferred dreams.

What figurative language is used here?

Look, I’m no Mother Teresa. I’ve made my mistakes, but I’m trying.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Paradox

What figurative language is used here?

"And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
'Cause girl, you're amazing
Just the way you are."

• - Bruno Mars, "Just the Way You Are"

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –"

• - Emily Dickinson, "Because I could not stop for Death"

In this poem, the underlined words are called ______.

• Hyperboles

• Metaphors

• Symbolisms

• Euphemisms

​ ​ (a)   symbols are universally recognized for representing certain ideas. For example, most readers would easily recognize the heart as a symbol for love.

• Conventional
• Contextual
• Literary

Betty's Room
There is no clutter cluttered up
more closely, I presume,
than the clutter clustered clingingly
in my friend, Betty's room.

Her mother mutters mawkishly
and fills her with such dread.
She mutters on about the muss
that messes Betty's bed.

At bedtime, Betty bounces all
her objects to the floor.
Each morning, when she wakes up, they
go on her bed once more.

There's papers, pencils, potpourri.
It piques her mother's stress.
She pouts. She plies and yet her cries
do not clean Betty's mess.

There's partly broken plastic toys,
each with a missing part,
some worn and withered whistles, which
are close to Betty's heart.

Old ballet shoes she cannot lose,
and photos of her friends,
a burnt-out fuse, some fruity chews,
a box of odds and ends.

Old magazines and school reports
(the ones that got the A's),
her worn out jeans, some socks to sort,
the programs from three plays.

Each object is an artifact,
a personal antique.
She cannot bear to throw them out;
they make her life unique.

There's feathers, fans, and fairy dolls --
and mother-daughter strife.
Her mother lives for neatness, but,
well, mess is Betty's life.

The sound device primarily used in the poem is _______.

• anaphora

• alliteration

• onomatopeia

• assonance