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12th grade (Year 13 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: L.11-12.5.A, RL.11-12.4 · England: A-level English Literature, AP Literature, GCSE English Literature

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Question 1
Which figure of speech is used here? Oh cruel sea, why did you take him from us?
- A. apostrophe
- B. bathos
- C. conceit
- D. allegory
Question 2
Type the figure of speech (in English) that matches this description. A sudden, often comic, drop from the serious to the trivial.
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Question 3
Which figure of speech matches this description? An elaborate, surprising comparison between two very different things, often extended.
- A. allegory
- B. metonymy
- C. conceit
- D. bathos
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Question 4
Which figure of speech is used here? Oh cruel sea, why did you take him from us?
- A. apostrophe
- B. conceit
- C. bathos
- D. metonymy
Question 5
Type the figure of speech (in English) that matches this description. Referring to something by a closely associated thing, not a part of it.
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Question 6
Which figure of speech matches this description? Referring to something by a closely associated thing, not a part of it.
- A. synecdoche
- B. allegory
- C. metonymy
- D. conceit
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Question 7
Which figure of speech is used here? Downing Street declined to comment.
- A. bathos
- B. apostrophe
- C. allegory
- D. metonymy
Question 8
Type the figure of speech (in English) that matches this description. A sudden, often comic, drop from the serious to the trivial.
Answer
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Question 9
Which figure of speech matches this description? Referring to something by a closely associated thing, not a part of it.
- A. metonymy
- B. bathos
- C. apostrophe
- D. conceit
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Question 10
Which figure of speech is used here? Fifty sails appeared on the horizon.
- A. allegory
- B. bathos
- C. synecdoche
- D. metonymy
Question 11
Type the figure of speech (in English) that matches this description. An elaborate, surprising comparison between two very different things, often extended.
Answer
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Question 12
Which figure of speech matches this description? An elaborate, surprising comparison between two very different things, often extended.
- A. bathos
- B. conceit
- C. apostrophe
- D. allegory
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Question 13
Which figure of speech is used here? A poem compares two separated lovers to the two legs of a drawing compass: one stays fixed while the other circles it.
- A. apostrophe
- B. metonymy
- C. conceit
- D. bathos
Question 14
Type the figure of speech (in English) that matches this description. Using a part to stand for the whole (or the whole for a part).
Answer
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Question 15
Which figure of speech matches this description? A sudden, often comic, drop from the serious to the trivial.
- A. bathos
- B. metonymy
- C. apostrophe
- D. allegory
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Question 16
Which figure of speech is used here? A novel about farm animals who overthrow their farmer, only to be ruled by greedy pigs, represents a political revolution gone wrong.
- A. allegory
- B. synecdoche
- C. metonymy
- D. conceit

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