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Grade 12 Figurative Language
A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements.
  1. analogy
  2. paradox
  3. caesura
  4. enjambment
  5. euphony
Grade 12 Figurative Language
a situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of discrepancy
  1. epithet
  2. euphemism
  3. euphony
  4. idiom
  5. irony
Grade 12 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.L.5, L.11-12.5, L.11-12.5a
Which of the following is the best example of a paradox?
  1. "Moses supposes his toeses are roses."
  2. "I'll be short."
  3. "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end."
  4. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
A verbal expression in which words or sounds are arranged in a particular way to achieve a particular effect.
  1. figure of speech
  2. falling meter
  3. hyperbole
  4. imagery
  5. irony
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
What is the generic term for the organizing principle of a literary work?
  1. epithet
  2. iamb
  3. foot
  4. meter
  5. form
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
Which choice describes a line of poetry that has four metrical feet?
  1. pentameter
  2. tetrameter
  3. heptameter
  4. octameter
  5. hexameter
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
These are metrical units that move from stressed to unstressed syllables.
  1. hexameter
  2. heptameter
  3. iambic pentameter
  4. falling meter
  5. feminine rhythm
Grade 12 Figurative Language
A figure of speech in which affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite.
  1. meiosis
  2. litotes
  3. irony
  4. figure of speech
  5. euphemism
Grade 12 Figurative Language
This is a descriptive expression, a word or phrase expressing some quality or attribute.
  1. euphony
  2. epithet
  3. idiom
  4. jargon
  5. meter
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
Refers to the narrator or speaker of the poem, not to be confused with the author.
  1. form
  2. trope
  3. persona
  4. archetype
  5. apostrophe
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
What is a line of poetry that has seven metrical feet called?
  1. iambic pentameter
  2. heptameter
  3. hexameter
  4. meter
  5. iamb
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
A line of poetry that has six metrical feet.
  1. iambic pentameter
  2. heptameter
  3. hexameter
  4. iamb
  5. meter
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
A phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after every stanza.
  1. couplet
  2. quarter
  3. paragraph
  4. quatrain
  5. refrain
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
What is the analysis of a poem’s meter called?
  1. stress
  2. scanning
  3. scansion
  4. dialect
  5. refrain
Grade 12 Figurative Language
The phrase below is an example of a(n):

Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex.
  1. anagram
  2. lipogram
  3. pangram
  4. telegram
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