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1. Which situation shows irony?
"If it were a cold, rainy gray day, you might say, “What a beautiful day!”
"If it were a cold, rainy gray day, you might say, "it's so cold!"
"If it were a cold, rainy gray day, you might say, "it's a monsoon season"

2. Which of the following is an example of litotes:
a. We don’t need you to come in on Sunday after all
b. I’m not looking forward to this dentist’s appointment
c. none of the above
3. Which of these is a chiasmus?
"We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us!”
"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”
That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

4. True or False: " She’s between jobs — She’s unemployed" is a statement of Euphemism
a.TRUE
b.FALSE

5. A type of figure of speech that uses non-literal language to describe an item or event in order to clarify a point or draw a contrast.
a. OXYMORON
b. ONOMATOPOEIA
c. METAPHOR

6. Is often used in literature to create aural effects that mimic the visual thing being described.
OXYMORON
ONOMATOPOEIA
METAPHOR

7. The rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it is also known as Paradox.
TRUE
FALSE

8."At night my brother snores so loud it sounds just like a riot."

Synecdoche
Personification
Understatement
Simile
Pun

9. "Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she;
She’s the hopeful lady of my earth.”
“When well-appareled April on the heel
Of limping winter treads, even such delight”
“Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie…”
Synecdoche
Personification
Understatement
Simile
Pun

10. "About Gatsby! No, I haven’t. I said I’d been making a small investigation of his past.”
“And you found he was an Oxford Man.”
Synecdoche
Personification
Understatement
Simile
Pun

11. "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man."
Synecdoche
Personification
Understatement
Simile
Pun

12. "I have to have this operation. It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.”
Synecdoche
Personification
Understatement
Simile
Pun

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