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100What is a figure of speech used for exaggeration
Hyperbole
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100What is analogy?
Trying to understand the justification for standardized tests is like skydiving without a parachute.
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100What is context?
The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning. The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.
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100What are examples of Paradox?
"War is peace"
"Freedom is slavery"
"Ignorance is strength"
-George Orwell
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100What is Florida?
The state where Mrs. Samkavitz went to high school.
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200What is onomatopoeia?
A word that imitates the sound it makes.
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200What is an example of Metaphor?
Time is money.
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200What is mood?
A state or quality of feeling at a particular time, the emotional effect of a poem or story.
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200What is an example of parrallelism?
"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their Altitude"
-Rev. Jessie Jackson
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200What is personification?
The trees are dancing in the wind
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300What is an allusion?
A reference (shout out) in a poem/story to a person, place, or thing to help create a mental picture.
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300What is an example of Simile?
The old man is as blind as a bat.
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300What is the use of contradictory terms (together) for effect?
Oxymoron.
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300Who is the Antagonist?
The wolf in "The Three Little Pigs".
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300What is 26?
The number of people in this class
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400What is an oxymoron?
The use of contradictory terms for effect.
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400What is an example of Analogy?
Glove is to hand as shoe is to foot.
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400What is Satire?
The use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like. A type of literary composition in a verse or prose.
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400What are: each, Nobody, everybody, no one, everyone
Name four pronouns that "always" take a singular verb
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400What is Pennsylvania?
The US state where the first chocolate bar was created.
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500What is alliteration?
The repetition of the initial consonant sound.
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500What is onomatopoeia?
POW!
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500What is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?
Irony.
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500What is an example of Hyperbole?
When I was your age I had to walk fifteen miles (both ways up-hill) to and from school and it was through shoulder high snow the whole way!
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500What is 2400?
The highest score you can get on the SAT test.
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