Figurative Language Test/ sonnet 18 questions

repetition of vowel sounds

• assonance

• paradox

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a seemingly contradictory statement, which actually makes sense or contains some truth

Example: Deep down you are actually quite shallow

• anaphora

• idiom

• paradox

• allusion

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

• meme

• contagion

• anaphora

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

3 types of irony: verbal (when what is said is the opposite of what is meant, situational (a contrast between the result of a situation and what is usually expected) and dramatic (when the audience or reader know more than the characters).

• euphemism

• allusion

• pun

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

3 line poem usually about nature

• sonnet

• haiku

• blues poem

• open form

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

a softer, more inoffensive word or phrase, used as a substitute for one considered too harsh or blunt, when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing

• euphemism

• analogy

• irony

• pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5