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Question and Answer
Poetry is the only genre of literature that uses figures of speech.
An Idiom
What words are used to establish a simile?
What is an allusion?
An exaggeration
A pairing of contradictory words
A magic trick.
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
A reference to something well known in culture
Match the figure of speech to its definition:
personification
hyperbole
imagery
irony
Difference between expectation and reality
An extreme exaggeration
Comparison NOT using like or as
Giving nonhuman things human characteristics
Language that appeals to the senses
metaphor
The following line of poetry is an example of a hyperbole: Although Miranda is pretty, her dress is pretty ugly.
What is the following line of poetry an example of?She walks in beauty like the night.
simile
allusion
idiom
oxymoron
hyperbole
What figure of speech is the following?:“And the dish ran away with the spoon”
What figure of speech is the following newspaper headline?“Dead Batteries Given Away Free of Charge!”
What figure of speech is the following?“Water, Water, Everywhere, nor any drop to drink”
simile
personification
pun
oxymoron
irony