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- 1.What is juxtaposition?
- A.
A tone that indicates that the responder is not intended to read the text as it appears.
- B.
When two things are placed side-by-side in order to contrast them or draw attention to their differences or similarities.
- C.
The person who tells the story.
- 2.What is a hyperbole?
- A.
The deliberate use of exaggeration for effect.
- B.
The breaking down and analysis of a text.
- C.
Central idea or argument.
- 3.An example of a simile is:
- A.
The diamond dazzled like the sun.
- B.
The elephant trudged through the mud.
- C.
Peacocks like showing off.
- 4...........is the repetition of sound at the end of words.
- 5.What is the word for language that is not really correct but created by particular groups in particular times?
- A.
Register
- B.
Satire
- C.
Slang
- 6.What is the meaning of colloquial language?
- A.
Language specifically chosen to evoke an emotional response from the reader/listener.
- B.
Technical language
- C.
Words and phrases that belong to everyday speech and conversation.
- 7.Onomatopoeia is where the sound of the word itself imitates the sound being described.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.A mofit is an expression or way of speaking which is peculiar to a language.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.What sentence uses assonance?
- A.
Go home Joe.
- B.
The cow is pretty ugly.
- C.
The moon was a ghostly galleon.
- 10.Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net. This metaphor in itallic compares Brian to a wall because __________.
- A.
He was very tall.
- B.
He kept returning the balls.
- C.
His body was made of cells.
- 11.2. We would have had more pizza to eat if Rose hadn’t been such a hog. Rose was being compared to a hog because she __________. A. looked like a hog B. ate like a hog C. was as smart as a hog
- A.
B
- B.
C
- C.
A
- 12.What is a euphemism?
- A.
The breaking down and analysis of the text.
- B.
A play on words.
- C.
An expression to avoid directly saying something distasteful, unpleasant or confronting.
- 13.Intertextuality is the relationship between other texts.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.The sentence 'It has rained so long, it seems as though it has rained for 40 days and nights' uses what langauge feature?
- A.
Metaphor
- B.
Alliteration
- C.
Allusion
- 15.What is the meter in this sentence? 'The cat sat on the mat all flat'.
- A.
Pentameter
- B.
Tetrameter
- C.
Trimeter
- 16.What is an oxymoron?
- A.
A figure of speech which yokes two contradictory terms.
- B.
Giving human qualities or characteristics to a non-human thing.
- C.
A question which is presented, not expecting an answer but to achieve an emphasis stronger than a direct statement.
- 17.A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form is called a:
- A.
Theme
- B.
Parody
- C.
Stanza
- 18.A synonym is a word which is (almost) the same as another.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel or story is called a metonymy.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.A struggle between opposing forces in a story or a play, usually resolved by the end of the story or play is called a......................
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