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Max is a pig when he eats.
This is an example of a/an: 

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

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What is a hyperbole?

• An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally. 
• Telling the truth
• Comparing a rock to a island
• Break a leg

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Type of Irony: A girl standing at a bus stop in the pouring rain says, "Isn't this great?" 

• Verbal
• Situational
• Dramatic
• None of the above

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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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"Connotative wording that attempts to influence the reader/listener" is the definition of...

• Explicit Language
• Implicit Language
• Figurative Language
• Loaded Language

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All’s fair in love and war
The above is an example of a(n)...

• simile 
• metaphor
• juxtaposition
• personification

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giving human traits to non-living things

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• anaphora

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"As the sun goes down and rises each day, so does our opportunity to start over and begin a new day."

• analogy (a comparison of two things)
• allusion 
• personification 
• hyperbole

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A story that can be read on two distinct levels.

• allegory

• short story

• pretend

• propaganda

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I would swim a thousand seas to get to my son,

• Hypebole

• Not a hyperbole

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