WorksheetsFigures of speech
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
They don't care about how much you know until they know how much you care
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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
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"Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love."
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"Never let a fool kiss you--or a kiss fool you."
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Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?
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The reversing the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases. This rhetorical device is also referred to as reverse parallelism, antimetabole or syntactical inversion.
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A statement that may seem absurd or contradictory but yet can be true, or at least makes sense.
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You can save money by spending it.
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“Men work together whether they work together or apart.”
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This is the beginning of the end.
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When you represent something as less than what it is. This can be done in writing or in speech.
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When you just hit the biggest lottery of all time and say I'm kind of excited.
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You scrape the entire side of your car, and then you say, "It is only a small scratch.
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The opposite to a hyperbole
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Santa’s helpers are known as subordinate Clauses.
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A joke that makes a play on words.
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"You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass."
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Eye Drops Off Shelf
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Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted
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"Atheism is a non-prophet institution"
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