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“All hands on deck!” The statement is an example of:
Synecdoche
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It is a figures of Speech that replaces the name of thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.
Metonymy
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Jerald is the Shakespeare of the university. The statement is an example of:
Allusion
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Jane touches Joy's hair, then Joy says that “I love when you do that.” The statement is an example of:
Verbal Irony
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It imply comparison of, unlike subjects without like or as
Metaphor
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It droped LIKE a gentle rain from heaven. Like is an example of:
simile
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It is a decrepancy between what the speaker says and what he means.
Verbal Irony
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It is a descrepancy or disparity between what seems and what is.
Irony
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Since concord was lost, friendship was lost; fidelity was lost; liberty was lost—all was lost.The statement is an example of:
Climax
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Save money by spending it. The statement is an example of:
Paradox
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It is an expressed comparison between two similar things introduced by like, as, as if, than and similar to.
Simile
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Time as he old teaches me a lesson. The statement is an example of:
Personification
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Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God. The statement is an example of:
Climax
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He is a phantom of the opera. The statement is an example of:
Metaphor
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"I came, I saw, I conquered." The statement is an example of:
Climax
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It is a brief an indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary, biblical, scientific or political significance.
Allusion
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She is the apple of his eyes. The statement is an example of
Metaphor
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You are the sunshine of my life. The statement is an example of
Metaphor
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Kristine is not fat. The statement is an example of:
Litotes
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'I'll be there in two seconds.'The statement is an example of:
Hyperbole
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It is an exageration for the purpose of emphasis or poetic effect.
Hyperbole
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"Its a cruel world" Jane said after a thief snatched her bag. The statement is an example of
Synecdoche
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'The teacher gave us a ton of homework.' The statement is example of:
Hyperbole
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In a film, two characters kill their former classmate – then hide his body in a wooden chest and host a dinner party. We know the body is in the chest but the partygoers do not. The situation is an example of
Dramatic Irony
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It is an address to the absent of as if present or the inanimate as if human.
Apostrophe
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“Parting is such sweet sorrow.” The statement is an example of:
Oxymoron
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'I was dying of laughter.' The statement is an example of:
Hyperbole
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It is the discrepancy between expectation and the result, intention and outcome, illusion and reality of a situation.
Irony of situation or situational Irony
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If I know one thing, it's that I know nothing. The statement is an example of:
Paradox
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“We need boots on the ground as quickly as possible”
Metonymy
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Mostly used in movies that when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
Dramatic Irony
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It refers to a compact paradox in wich TWO SUCCESSIVE words apparently contradict each other
Oxymoron
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It refers to the arrangement of words or ideas according to their degree of importance from least valuable to most valuable.
Climax
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"Let me give you a hand". The statement is an example of:
Metonymy
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A figures of speech that is the representation of true but seemingly contradict ideas.
Paradox
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It is the figures if speechin which human characteristics is attributed to an inanimate thing.
Personification
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Her lips is AS red As an apple. The capitalized word is a/an:
simile
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The show is not boring until it ends. The statement is an example of:
Litotes
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“I distinctly remember forgetting that.” The statement is an example of:
Oxymoron
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"For God, for Country, and for school." The statement is an example of:
Bathos
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It is the loudicrous decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.
Anti-climax
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The wise fool burned my tacco. The statement is an example of:
Oxymoron
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Pearl Ann is the Efren Reyes of Hagonoy National High School.
Allusion
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A marriage counselor files for divorce. The statement is an example of:
Situational Irony
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Death stopped me. The statement is an example of:
Personification
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10 eyes are watching the shows. The statement is an example of:
Synecdoche
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O liberty! liberty! How many crimes are committed in thy namee!
Apostrophe
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It is a deliberate understatement used to affirm by negating its opposite. It uses double negative words to make a statement or sentence a positive.
Litotes
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O wild west wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. The statement is an example of:
Apostrophe
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Let the floods clap their hands. The statement is an example of:
Personification