Leaving Cert English

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1. What is Onomotopaiea

The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to

Is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or drama

This is a long speech in a play by one character.

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Test on Poetry and Literary Devices for leaving Cert English.

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2. An Oxymoron is The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

True

False

An Oxymoron is when words are placed side by side which contradict each other.
Bad Luck, Calm Storm, Delicious Poison.

Explanation

An Oxymoron is when words are placed side by side which contradict each other.
Bad Luck, Calm Storm, Delicious Poison.

3. What is Hyperbole?

Exagerration

Humour

Slang.

4. The Word Insatiable means extremely Satisied?

True

False

5. A Simile is

A comparison without using like or as.

A comarison using like or as

A very happy theme in an essay

Internal rhyme

6. Who wrote the poem "Love"

Maya Angelou

Eavan Boland

William Shakespeare

7. To make our broken images, rebuild Themselves around your limbs, your broken Image, find for your sake whose life our idle Talk has cost, a new language. These lines come from the poem?

Child of Our Times

This Moment

Love.

8. What does the word "Antithesis" mean?

When something is against something.

When Something is the direct opposite of something

When words rhyme internally in a sentence.

Exampes, IT was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Explanation

Exampes, IT was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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