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

• repetition
• sarcasm
• ironic twist
• dramatic effect

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A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another using "like" or "as"

• simile
• metaphor
• extended metaphor
• symbolism

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A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• imagery

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Which road did the traveler take?

• The one less traveled by.
• The one which bent in the undergrowth.
• The fair one.

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The exposition states that the children are gathering stones into a pile. This is an example of what literary device?

• Pun
• Simile
• Foreshadowing
• Metaphor

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"The man was a constant and steady rock." This is an example of  _____________________________. 

• Simile
• Personification
• Metaphor 
• Style

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When Harper Lee starts the novel by saying her brother Jem broke his arm, and she "maintain[s] that the Ewells started it all", that is an example of...

• Foreshadowing
• Allegory
• Metaphor
• Simile

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Simile or Metaphor:
My life is a dream.

• simile
• metaphor

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Bob and Tom, rivals since 3rd grade, are competing in SMS' 3rd annual cook-off. Bob has lost to Tom EVERY year. This year, he vows to finally beat him. When the chili bowls are put in their spots, Bob sneaks in and dumps a jar of spicy pepper flakes into Tom's bowl. When it comes time for judging, the teacher explains that the chili bowls were moved down one spot because someone did not enter. Bob actually sabotaged his OWN bowl, and he loses to Tom for the 4th year in a row. This is an example of -

• foreshadowing

• irony

• imagery

• simile

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(1) This week had been a shipwreck! (2) Monday greeted with a slap on the face as my alarm clock screamed at me to get up. (3) I woke up feeling as ragged as a old pair of holey shoes. (4) I got on my bus feeling like I'd stepped through Platform 9 3/4 into a Hogwarts experience. (5) First of all, math landed an uppercut with a Job-sized problem that had no solution. (6) My mathematician teacher assured me that if I just used my head as something besides a hat rack, I'd find the answer. (7) Then I trudged to English feeling like something the cat dragged, and my friend Paige (8) accidentally gave me a glue stick instead of chapstick. I'm still not talking to her. (9) Although it took forever and a day to get here, Friday finally showed up with her famously fat smile on her face.

What TWO uses of figurative language are shown?

• There's no use of figurative language.

• simile

• implied metaphor

• hyperbole

• allusion

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