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Grade 12 Figurative Language CCSS: RL.11-12.6
Verbal irony can be presented as:
  1. sarcasm
  2. overstatement
  3. understatement
  4. all of the above
Grade 12 Figurative Language
Irony occurs when the
  1. events play out the way the reader expects.
  2. events of a situation provide information.
  3. author's words state one thing but imply the opposite.
  4. author flashes back in time to a previous event.
Grade 12 Figurative Language
What is a type of figurative language that depends on intentional overstatement called?
  1. irony
  2. hyperbole
  3. euphony
  4. jargon
  5. euphemism
Grade 12 Figurative Language
A term like BITTER SWEET is an example of a(n):
  1. mondegreen
  2. malapropism
  3. oxymoron
  4. onomatopoeia
Grade 12 Figurative Language
When someone says or writes something but means something entirely different.
  1. situational irony
  2. verbal irony
  3. dramatic irony
  4. none of the above
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
What is a stanza or poem of four lines called?
  1. quarter
  2. quartet
  3. quatrain
  4. octet
  5. sextet
Grade 12 Figurative Language
Saying NASA instead of National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an example of an:
  1. acronym
  2. anagram
  3. eponym
  4. initialism
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
A single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general.
  1. quatrain
  2. verse
  3. prose
  4. refrain
  5. antithesis
Grade 12 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.R.4, RL.11-12.4

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"Must get the scraper removed or else I shall get into a SCRAPE" is an example of which type of figurative language?
  1. A pun
  2. An idiom
  3. Sarcasm
  4. Hyperbole
Grade 12 Figurative Language
Which choice refers to word order and sentence structure?
  1. syntax
  2. diction
  3. connotation
  4. annotation
  5. consonance
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
A line of poetry that has five metrical feet.
  1. octameter
  2. hexameter
  3. heptameter
  4. tetrameter
  5. pentameter
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
What is the most common type of meter in the English language?
  1. iambic pentameter
  2. heptameter
  3. hexameter
  4. iamb
  5. meter
Grade 12 Figurative Language
Refers to the intentional downplaying of a situation’s significance, often for ironic or humorous effect.
  1. hyperbole
  2. overstatement
  3. understatement
  4. irony
  5. sarcasm
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole.
  1. metonymy
  2. paradox
  3. litotes
  4. synecdoche
  5. meiosis
Grade 12 Figurative Language
Calling a video log a vlog is an example of a(n):
  1. acronym
  2. malapropism
  3. portmanteau
  4. spoonerism
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