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Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies. This is an example of what figure of speech?
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Personification
Metonymy
All are examples of Metonymy except:
The White House
Hollywood
Pentagon
Bitter Sweet
Giggle, boom, cuckoo, murmur, hiss, chirp are examples of what figure of speech?
metonymy
alliteration
onomatopoeia
paradox
refers to a literary device in which a part of something is substituted for the whole.
Paradox
Synecdoche
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
The pen is mightier than the sword is an example of:
Metonymy
Paradox
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Goldfish are very hygienic fish - they eat their poop. This is an example of what figure of speech?
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Oxymoron
Paradox
My hair grew three inches while you were shopping. This is an example of what figure of speech?
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
oxymoron
Metaphors, similes, personification and hyperbole are different types of
figurative language
poetic devices
figures of speech
all of the above
Which one is an assonance?
Shy Sarah Saw Six Swiss Wrist Watches
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Literally literary literature in lots of libraries
He fell asleep under the cherry tree
refers to the repetition of internal vowel sounds in words that do not end the same.
alliteration
assonance
metonymy
none of the above
