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Language Use for Impact

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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?

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Alliteration

c)

Personification

d)

Metonymy

2.

All are examples of Metonymy except:

a)

The White House

b)

Hollywood

c)

Pentagon

d)

Bitter Sweet

3.

Giggle, boom, cuckoo, murmur, hiss, chirp are examples of what figure of speech?

a)

metonymy

b)

alliteration

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

paradox

4.

refers to a literary device in which a part of something is substituted for the whole.

a)

Paradox

b)

Synecdoche

c)

Alliteration

d)

Onomatopoeia

5.

The pen is mightier than the sword is an example of:

a)

Metonymy

b)

Paradox

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Oxymoron

6.

Goldfish are very hygienic fish - they eat their poop. This is an example of what figure of speech?

a)

Metonymy

b)

Synecdoche

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Paradox

7.

My hair grew three inches while you were shopping. This is an example of what figure of speech?

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

oxymoron

8.

Metaphors, similes, personification and hyperbole are different types of

a)

figurative language

b)

poetic devices

c)

figures of speech

d)

all of the above

9.

Which one is an assonance?

a)

Shy Sarah Saw Six Swiss Wrist Watches

b)

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

c)

Literally literary literature in lots of libraries

d)

He fell asleep under the cherry tree

10.

refers to the repetition of internal vowel sounds in words that do not end the same.

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

metonymy

d)

none of the above