CCSS.ELA.Content.L.8.5

A type of verbal irony that intends to mock or show contempt

• repetition
• sarcasm
• ironic twist
• dramatic effect

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

CCSS.ELA.Content.L.8.5

What is alliteration?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.L.8.5

Choose the word that best matches the clue below.
similar meaning to annihilate, but with a less negative connotation ______________

• defeat
• indecency
• violence
• passably

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

CCSS.ELA.Content.L.8.5

The drive to Disney World will last forever if I have to be stuck in the backseat with my pesky little sister. 

• personification
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.6.4

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

CCSS.ELA.Content.L.8.5

The baby girl’s smile was the sun on dark days. 
What does the metaphor mean above?

• The baby girl's smile made other people happy.
• When the baby girl smiled the sun would rise. 
• The baby never smiled. 
• The baby girl's smile made the moon come out. 

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.8.4

CCSS.ELA.Content.L.8.5

Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"

• Verbal
• situational
• Dramatic
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.ELA.Content.L.8.5

WORDS THAT HAVE OPPOSITE MEANINGS are called

• HOMONYMS
• ANTONYMS
• SYNONYMS
• PREFIXES

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.L.8.5

The kidnappers demanded a _____ before they returned the boy.

• note
• ransom
• proposition
• commend

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.L.8.5

Mrs. Van Daan invites everyone for her famous latkes next Hanukkah. This is an example of what?

• dramatic irony
• metaphor
• alliteration
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.L.8.5

When Romeo describes how family love has caused hatred for the opposite family, he says "O loving hate...O heavy lightness, serious vanity...feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health" (I.i.174-178). All of these are examples of what literary device?

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.ELA.Content.L.8.5