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Sound Devices - Poetry

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A statement that looks like a contradiction; but makes good sense when you examine it more closely.

a)

Paradox

b)

Irony

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Litotes

2.

The placement of two contrasting ideas side by side.

a)

Paradox

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Irony

d)

Meiosis

3.

Saying the opposite of what you really mean is called ...

(a)  

4.

Choose the 3 correct forms of Irony:

a)

Situational Irony

b)

Verbal Irony

c)

Climatic Irony

d)

Bathos Irony

e)

Irony of Fate

5.

A deliberate exaggeration in order to make a point.

a)

Meiosis

b)

Innuendo

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Homophone

6.

Meiosis is the opposite of a ........ making an understatement in order to prove a point.

a)

Litote

b)

Euphemism

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Assonance

7.

A Euphemism, like Meiosis, is an understatement. It expresses an unpleasant reality in a more sensitive way

a)

True

b)

False

8.

A special kind of euphemism which makes a statement by denying the opposite of that statement.

a)

Meiosis

b)

Metonymy

c)

Litotes

d)

Oxymoron

9.

This picture of a disrespectful remark that is made in the form of an insinuation, is an example of:

a)

Metonymy

b)

Innuendo

c)

Synecdoche

d)

Pun

10.

The picture of identifying a thing by mentioning something associated with it, is a ...

a)

Metonymy

b)

Euphemism

c)

Synecdoche

d)

Sarcasm

11.

Only mentions a part of a thing when it means the whole, or vice versa.

a)

Antithesis

b)

Innuendo

c)

Synecdoche

d)

Metonymy

12.

Using two similar sounding words for humorous effect.

a)

Sarcasm

b)

Jokes

c)

Allusions

d)

Pun

13.

Addressing an absent person or inanimate object.

a)

Metonymy

b)

Innuendo

c)

Apostrophe

d)

Bathos

14.

A question to which an answer is not expected.

a)

Sarcasm

b)

Anticlimax

c)

Antithesis

d)

Rhetorical

15.

A statement in the form of 2 opposed elements

a)

Climax

b)

Anticlimax

c)

Bathos

d)

Antithesis

16.

the statement in the picture picture is organized in ascending order. This is an example of ...

a)

Anticlimax

b)

Bathos

c)

Alliteration

d)

Climax

17.

Anticlimax and Bathos are the same except Bathos is intentional and Anticlimax is not.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

The repetition of consonant sounds

a)

Assonance

b)

Homonym

c)

Alliteration

d)

Onomatopoeia

19.

The repetition of vowel sounds

a)

Assonance

b)

Alliteration

c)

Antithesis

d)

Homophone

20.

words that imitate sounds and echoes meaning

a)

Alliteration

b)

Assonance

c)

Onomatopoeia

d)

Homonyms