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Reading and All That Jazz: Tuning Up Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills, 2/e

Peter Mather, Glendale Community College
Rita McCarthy, Glendale Community College

Figurative Language

Multiple Choice


1	Often this specialized language enables the author to more clearly convey meaning, making a comparison to something that is more familiar or readily understood.
		A)	figures of speech
		B)	similes
		C)	metaphors
		D)	personification


2	A ____________________ is a figure of speech that compares two dissimilar things. These usually use the words like, as or as if to show the comparisons.
		A)	figures of speech
		B)	simile
		C)	metaphor
		D)	personification


3	___________________ is a type of figurative language that gives human attributes to a nonhuman subject.
		A)	figure of speech
		B)	simile
		C)	metaphor
		D)	personification


4	A ___________________ connects two unlike things directly without using like, as or as if. One thing is spoken of as if it is something else.
		A)	figure of speech
		B)	simile
		C)	metaphor
		D)	personification


5	When words are used conventionally and mean exactly what they say, they are being used
		A)	figuratively.
		B)	literally.
		C)	simile.
		D)	tritely.


6	What does trite mean?
		A)	worn
		B)	overused
		C)	hackneyed
		D)	All of the above.


7	______________________ is a reference to something that is supposed to be common cultural knowledge.
		A)	analogy
		B)	symbol
		C)	literary allusion
		D)	imagery


8	A writer uses _____________ to make something understandable or clear by comparing it to something that is different from it but that does have something in common with it.
		A)	analogy
		B)	symbol
		C)	literary allusion
		D)	imagery


9	A __________________ is a person, object, or event that stands for more than its literal meaning. It represents something else
		A)	analogy
		B)	symbol
		C)	literary allusion
		D)	imagery


10	Writers often use _______________ to create word pictures. They describe a person, object, or setting. The words or phrases that they use may emphasize any or all of our five senses- sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.
		A)	analogy
		B)	symbol
		C)	literary allusion
		D)	imagery

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