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Referring to someone's house as a "shack" would have a __________ connotation.

• positive

• negative

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'Your kiss lies on my face, like the first snow upon a summer place.'  is an example of:

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

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Based on the "bad driver" metaphor, who does Jordan feel is the "bad driver" in her life?

• Nick
• Daisy
• her aunt
• Tom

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What does the scarlet ibis symbolize?

• Doodle
• The narrator
• Aunty Nicey
• Hope

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"The gentle giant jumped in jubilation" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Personification
• Imagery

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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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What is the Red Death?

• A Person
• A simile
• A metaphor
• a disease

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What's an example of verbal irony?

• Chanting, "You're an awesome athlete!" to an Olympian
• Saying, "Good job!" to someone who just rear ended a car
• When the sun is shining and the birds are singing, you say, "Nice weather we're having, right?"
• All of the above

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Under exaggeration; using a negative statement to affirm a positive (ex:  I'm sure that trigonometry quiz won't be a BIT hard.)

• hyperbole
• litote
• syntax
• form 

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Allusion is defined as______

• Two lines working as a unit
• A reference to a famous  person, place, or event
• A form of wordplay with similar sounding sounds
• Words that involve one of the five senses

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