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As sweet as ______

• an ox
• sugar
• a fox

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Figurative Language:
"Death lies on her like an untimely frost"

• Metaphor 
• Simile
• Irony
• Oxymoron

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"The lumberjack leveled many trees that day as his chainsaw sang its deadly song."
What is being personified?

• The lumberjack
• The trees
• The chainsaw
• The song

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can be verbal, situational, or dramatic and has the result of the meaning, situation or action being one thing but meaning something different.

• satire
• metaphor
• parody
• irony

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"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil, prophet still, if bird or devil!" is an example of . . .

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole

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While at the restaurant, Amy said, "I would like a heavy serving of appetizers." Here statement contains__________________.

• oxymoron 
• alliteration 
• simile
• allusion 

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HYPERBOLE

• The recurrence of initial consonant sounds
• repeating words or phrases in reverse order
• makes an idea seem less important than it really is
• An exaggeration

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SIMILE

• A comparison that does not use like or as
• A comparison that uses like or as
• Pairing a compliment and a criticism to lessen the impact
• Connecting two things

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The following sentence from Part I demonstrates what type of figurative language:The Cyclops seemed rather a shaggy mountain reared in solitude.

• simile
• personification
• metaphor
• allusion

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"Oh he's so beautiful--such a beautiful disaster," sings Kelly Clarkson.

• oxymoron

• paradox

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