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Professional Development
Introduction to figures of speech | Pun, Metaphor, Allusion
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Erin Brockovich, a single mother with no legal training, helped win a daunting court battle against a Goliath energy company.
Alliteration
Allusion
Onomatopeia
- 2. Fill in the Blank
_____________ an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. Such as something referring to history or past
- 3. Multiple Choice
He wanted his friends to realize that life is a journey and not a destination.
—Lynn H. Hough
Verbal Irony
Simile
Metaphor
- 4. Fill in the Blank
________ is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 5. Multiple Choice
He had hoped to find his missing watch, but he couldn't find the time.
Pun
Onomatopeia
- 6. Multiple Choice
Ernest remarked that the new book on anti-gravity was impossible to put down.
Pun
Alliteration
Allusion
- 7. Fill in the Blank
__________ is a figure of speech is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
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