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Figures of Speech

English

9th - 10th Grade

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Figures of Speech
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A figure of speech is ___________.

a familiar expression or saying
a non-literal way of saying something.
what the author literally means.
something only writers use.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What figure of speech is being asked? "The little stars, like little children, went first to bed." 

Metaphor
Simile
Metonymy
Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What figure of speech is being asked? "He has the patience of Job."

Allusion
Irony
Apostrophe
Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What figure of speech is being asked? "Have you read Shakespeare? "

Simile
Irony
Metonymy
Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What figure of speech is being asked? "Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow flakes."

Allusion
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What figure of speech is being asked? "Rizal! See the fair hope of the Fatherland."

Personification
metaphor
Synecdoche
Apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What figure of speech is being asked? "The tumult reached the stars."

Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
I

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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