Language Expressions Quiz

Expressions that do not mean literally what they say

• syntax

• figurative language

• personification

• metaphor

Expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements

• idiom

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Words that represent sounds

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Play, novel, poem, etc. that uses comedy, irony, or mockery to demonstrate the absurdity of someone or something

• metaphor

• allegory

• satire

• simile

Giving nonhuman objects human characteristics

• personification

• metaphor

• understatement

• alliteration

Character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction

• tragic flaw

• dramatic irony

• logos

• tragic hero

Technique of narrating an event that occurred before the point in the story to which the narrator has advanced

• metaphor

• archetype

• flashback

• irony

Original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based

• allegory

• archetype

• allusion

• metaphor

Appeal used to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions

• pathos

• ethos

• allusion

• logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Language that appeals to all senses

• pathos

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile