Review Flashcards

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An inconsistency between an actual and an expected result of an event is what?

A

Irony

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Silly Sally sold seashells down by the sea shore!

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

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Alliteration

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What type of figurative language is being used?

My love is like a red, red rose.

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Simile

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When the audience knows more than a character does about a situation is what?

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Dramatic irony

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What type of figurative language is being used?

His voice was silk.

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Metaphor

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A word or words, which are formed or sounded alike, but have a different meaning; to have more than one possible meaning is called what?

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Pun

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally are called…

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Hyperbole

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This type of irony occurs when the exact opposite of what is meant or expected to happen, happens.

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Situational irony

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A figure of speech that compares two things, but does not use like or as is known as what?

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Metaphor

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That guy was as tall as the St. Louis Arch!

What type of figurative language is this?

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Hyperbole

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A figurative language technique where an object or idea is given human characteristics.

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Personification

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A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing is called what?

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Onomatopoeia

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A figure of speech that compares two things using like or as is known as what.

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Simile

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The use of words that begin with the same sound near one another is called what?

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Alliteration

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That pencil is pointless!

What type of figurative language is being used?

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Pun

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I’m feeling under the weather.

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

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Idiom

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The grass begged for sunlight and water.

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

A

Personification

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An expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements is called what?

A

Idiom

18
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The use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says is what?

A

Verbal irony

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The car raced down the street and then, BOOM, it exploded when it hit the tree. Good thing is was a remote control car!

What type of figurative language is being used here?

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Onomatopoeia