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“The weather is brisk,” Nathan admitted, as the thermometer
read minus ten degrees Fahrenheit.

• Understatement
• Hyperbole
• Litotes
• Antithesis

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When you expect one thing but something else happens is a definition of

• characterization
• irony
• inciting incident
• setting

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Which road did the traveler take?

• The one less traveled by.
• The one which bent in the undergrowth.
• The fair one.

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Identify which poetic device is used below:
The car raced down the road like a rocket.

• Refrain
• Simile
• Assonance
• Alliteration

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writing that compares to unlike things but does not use like or as

• metaphor
• alliteration
• resolution
• character development

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What is "the devastation that will never end"?

• memories
• imagination
• war
• future

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The words a poet uses to describe one thing by comparing it to something else with which we are more familiar.

• figurative language

• imagery

• alliteration

• refrain

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_________ is a big exaggeration, usually with humor.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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What figurative language is being used in the text.

"Isabel took a fresh tortilla, sprinkled it with salt, and rolled it like a cigar... Pg 122"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

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Because she only gave the contract a cursory glance, Dina didn't realize that she had agreed to pay a penalty if she changed her cell phone company within the next two years. The word cursory means:

• a sideways look

• thoroughly read

• quickly, without attention

• impulsive decision

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