figurative language practice. “five miles meandering with mazy motion” is an example of which...
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Figurative Language
PRACTICE
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“Five miles meandering with mazy motion” is an example of
which device?
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Alliteration
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“Hum, buzz, clang, boom, hiss,” and “crack” are examples of which
device?
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Onomatopoeia
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“However, then, next, therefore, in conclusion,” and “similarly” are
words that would probably be used as ____________
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Transitions
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A(n) ____________ is a short, informal reference to a famous
person or event. The best sources for _______ are literature, history,
Greek myth, and the Bible.
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Allusion
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“The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted and will
produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized
and enriched with foreign matter.” –Joshua Reynolds
This is an example of which device?
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Metaphor
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Obvious, extravagant exaggeration or overstatement, not intended to
be taken literally, but used figuratively to create humor or
emphasis.
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Hyperbole
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The making of “pictures in words,” the pictorial quality of a literary
work achieved through a collection of images.
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Imagery
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“Language that contains figures of speech, such as metaphor, simile,
personification, and hyperbole, expressions that make
comparisons or associations meant to be interpreted imaginatively
rather than literally.”What is this a definition for?
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Figurative Language
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Similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants.
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Assonance(sheer, peel, steam)
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“The ship began to creak and protest as it struggled against the
rising sea.”
This is an example of which device?
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Personification
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“There are a thousand reasons why more research is needed on solar
energy”
This is an example of which device?
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Hyperbole
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“Ping pong” “tip top” and “flim flam” are examples of which device?
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Consonance
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“After two hours of political platitudes, everyone grew bored. The delegates were bored; the guests were bored; the speaker
himself was bored. Even the chairs were bored.”
This is an example of which device?
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Personification
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A Greek word meaning “acutely silly,” ___________ names a figure
of speech that combines contradictions.
It is also a paradox reduced to two words.
Name the device
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Oxymoron
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“We bought this house instead of the one on Maple because this one
is more friendly”
This sentence contains the device _______________
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Personification
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“The 1906 San Francisco earthquake interrupted business somewhat in the downtown area”
Considering the fact that the 1906 earthquake was actually extremely
destructive, this sentence is an example of which device?
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Understatement
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“After such long exposure to the direct sun, the leaves of the
houseplant looked like pieces of overcooked bacon.”
This is an example of which device?
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Simile
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_________ compares two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or
object is similar to some familiar one…_______ serves the more practical end
of explaining a thought process or a line of reasoning or the abstract in
terms of the concrete, and may therefore be more extended.
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Analogy
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“If you like plop, plop, plop of a faucet at three in the morning, you
will like this record”
This is an example of which device?
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Onomatopoeia
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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”
–Francis Bacon
This is an example of which device?
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Simile
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“If you take his parking place, you can expect World War II all over
again.”
This is an example of which device?
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Allusion
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“The truth is the only thing that no one will believe”
-George Bernard Shaw
This statement is an example of which device?
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Paradox
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“Thunderous silence” and “jumbo shrimp” are examples of which
device?
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Oxymoron
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“Mary changed her mind as often as she inhaled” is an example of
which writer’s device(s)?
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Hyperbole and simile
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Which device is “a figure of speech in which the intended meaning of a word it stated is the opposite of its
literal meaning”
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Irony
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“Plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” –Richard Cushing
Which device is this an example of?
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Allusion
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“Scandalously nice” “wise fool” and “freezing fire” are examples of
which writer’s device?
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Oxymoron
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Deliberately expressing an idea as less important than it actually is.
This is called _____________
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Understatement
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“When it comes to midterms, it’s kill or be killed. Let’s go in and slay this test. Let’s take the beast head on, let’s shred it with our pencils and
claim victory.”
This is an example of which device?
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Extended metaphor
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“The moon pools on the tombs” is an example of _________
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Assonance
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“I can’t get this fuel pump back on because this bolt is being
uncooperative.”
Name the device being used.
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Personification
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“The cost-saving plan became an expensive economy.”
Name the device
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Oxymoron
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“I said ‘rare’ not ‘raw.’ I’ve seen cows hurt worse than this get up
and get well.”
Name the device.
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Hyperbole
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“The soul in the body is like a bird in a cage”
Name the device
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Simile
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“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about”
–Oscar Wilde
Name the device
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Paradox
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Examples and definitions from http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
or NTC’s Dictionary of Literary Terms by
Kathleen Morner & Ralph Rausch, 1991or
www.writersdigest.com