Fill-in Quiz: Figurative Language 3
Short-answer questions on paradox, overstatement, understatement, and irony.
ENGLISH 12AP: Literature and Composition
Quiz - Figurative Language (3)
Name
Date Per.
Mr. Reed
1.What type of figurative language is defined as “an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true”?
2.What type of figurative language is defined as “exaggeration in the service of truth”?
3.What type of figurative language is defined as “saying less than one means”?
4.What type of figurative language is defined as “saying the opposite of what one means”?
5.What type of language is defined as “bitter or cutting speech, intended to wound feelings”?
6.What genre is defined as “ridicule (either bitter or gentle) of human folly or vice, with the purpose of bringing about reform or at least of keeping other people from falling into similar folly or vice”?
7.What type of figurative language is defined as “a discrepancy between what the speaker says and what the poem means”?
8.What type of figurative language is defined as “a discrepancy between the actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or between what one anticipates and what actually comes to pass”?
9.Consider your answers to 1-8. The value of only one of these devices lies in its shock value. Which device is it?
10.Of the literary devices discussed in this chapter, which one is most damaging if misinterpreted?