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Figurative Language:
"Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir,
My daughter he hath wedded."

• Personification 
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron

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

• Metaphor 
• Simile
• Irony
• Oxymoron

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Any instance in which the narrator or a character says one thing but means something else is

• Verbal Irony
• Situational Irony
• Dramatic Irony

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Mercutio tries to get Romeo to answer him by using dirty references to Rosaline.

• True
• False

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Q: In the second paragraph of the speech (beginning "Five score years ago . . ."), which extended metaphor does Dr. King introduce?

• A. Life as a journey
• B. Highs (mountains) and lows (valleys)
• C. Life as a dream
• D. Light (day) and darkness (night)

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an expression that combines contradictory ideas together

• dramatic irony

• tragedy

• oxymoron

• tragic flaw

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"Red is a shout" has the similar meaning with

• Red squiggles out

  when you cut your hand.

• and the sound of a band.

• Red is a great big

  Rubber ball.

• Red is a show-off,

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How do we define figurative language?

• Words or phrases that affect a meaning other than the usual or literal meaning of those words/phrases.

• words or phrases that create images

• the sequence of events that contribute to a plot

• the parts of a poem that create feeling

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When human qualities are used to describe non-human things is called.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Humanisation

• Personification

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Which one is NOT a metaphor?

• He is a night owl.

• The computer was a dinosaur.

• My brother is a chicken.

• She acts like a pig at dinner.

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