Unit 2 Quiz 1

What is an idiom?

• A phrase understood in one culture but not in another

• A reference to something well known in a story

• An extended comparison between two unlike things

• A simple poem or story with a deeper political or philosophical meaning

A simple poem or story with a deeper political or philosophical meaning

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allegory

• Idiom

An Allusion is...

• A phrase understood in one culture but not in another

• A reference to something well known in a story

• An extended comparison between two unlike things

• A simple poem or story with a deeper political or philosophical meaning

An Analogy is...

• A phrase understood in one culture but not in another

• A reference to something well known in a story

• An extended comparison between two unlike things

• A simple poem or story with a deeper political or philosophical meaning

When what is expected to happen does not happen and the opposite happens

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Symbol

Something tangible that stands in for an abstract concept

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Symbol

Evidence that is directly stated in the text

• Implicit Evidence

• Explicit Evidence

Evidence that we have to piece together using clues in the text

• Implicit Evidence

• Explicit Evidence

An inference is...

• An educated guess we make about a text.

• A type of evidence

• A figurative device

A hyperbole is...

• An extreme exageration of what is actually meant

• Giving human qualities to something inhuman

• A comparison between two unlike things using like or as