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8 vocab cards all for poetry that deal with figurative language

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unit 3 common core english 11 poetry vocab

Question 1 of 8

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what is a hyperbole

Select one of the following:

  • exaggeration

  • seeing things in person

Explanation

Question 2 of 8

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what is a synecdoche

Select one of the following:

  • the whole substituting for part or part of the whole

  • not substituting just letting the sentence be.

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Question 3 of 8

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what is a metaphor

Select one of the following:

  • to compare things without using like or as

  • to compare things with using the words like or as

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Question 4 of 8

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what is a simile

Select one of the following:

  • comparing unlike things using the words like or as

  • comparing unlike things without using like or as

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Question 5 of 8

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what is personification

Select one of the following:

  • giving human like qualites to something non- human

  • giving human like qualities to something human

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Question 6 of 8

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what is a oxymoron

Select one of the following:

  • combines two words with opposite meanings

  • combines two words with the same meanings

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Question 7 of 8

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what is a paradox

Select one of the following:

  • an idea that seems to contradict itself, but it is actually true.

  • an idea that seems to contradict itself, but it is actually false

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Question 8 of 8

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what is imagery

Select one of the following:

  • words or phrases that appeal to more than one sense

  • words or phrases that only appeal to one sense

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