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Grade 12 Figurative Language
The teddy bear was named for Theodore Roosevelt. What is this an example of?
  1. antonym
  2. eponym
  3. illustration
  4. oxymoron
Grade 12 Figurative Language
Saying BBC instead of British Broadcasting Corporation is an example of an:
  1. acronym
  2. anagram
  3. eponym
  4. initialism
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
Refers to pleasant spoken sound that is created by smooth consonants.
  1. euphemism
  2. imagery
  3. euphony
  4. cacophony
  5. meiosis
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
A stanza composed of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter.
  1. couplet
  2. heroic couplet
  3. analogy
  4. blank verse
  5. epithet
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
The shorter final stanza of a poem, as in a ballade.
  1. foot
  2. envoy
  3. form
  4. meter
  5. meiosis
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
What is a rhyme that occurs in a final unstressed syllable called?
  1. falling meter
  2. heptameter
  3. feminine meter
  4. hexameter
  5. iambic pentameter
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
A metrical foot of two syllables, both of which are long (or stressed).
  1. anapest
  2. dactyl
  3. spondee
  4. trochee
  5. iamb
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
Two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem.
  1. heptameter
  2. meter
  3. iambic pentameter
  4. iamb
  5. foot
Grade 12 Poetic Devices
What are meters that move from an unstressed syllable to a stressed syllable called?
  1. even meter
  2. falling meter
  3. feminine meter
  4. masculine meter
  5. rising meter
Grade 12 Personification CCSS: CCRA.R.6, RL.11-12.6

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How does the author personify the eagle?
  1. By comparing the eagle to a thunderbolt
  2. By describing the eagle's crooked hands
  3. By saying the sea crawls
  4. By describing how he watches the water
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