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

• Metaphor 
• Simile
• Irony
• Oxymoron

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What do you think the meaning of this metaphor,
"She is a walking dictionary" is? 

• Was is tired 
• She knows a lot of words
• She was walks around the street 

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An allusion is:

• A repetition of words or phrases to add emphasis
• Something you think you see but is not actually there
• A reference to either a historical event or another text meant to make a connection between them
• A short story meant to draw in the audience and illustrate an idea.

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The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device?
Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit of all goodness.

• Epistrophe
• Hyperbole
• Anastrophe
• Antithesis

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The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
Bill is a cheerful pessimist.

• Irony
• Oxymoron
• Paradox
• Metaphor

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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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"Water is cheaper than diamonds, yet humans need water, not diamonds, to survive."

• hyperbole
• paradox
• allusion 
• simile

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Her voice is full of money. (Whose voice?)

• Jordan
• Daisy

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Which phrase has a more positive connotation?

• a peculiar object

• a unique object

• a strange object

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An oxymoron is a figure of speech that uses self contradictory terms back to back.

• True
• False

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