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  1. 1What is a hyperbole?
    ex: "I am so hungry I could eat a horse."
    1. Athe use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It is used in poems to create emphasis on a situation.
    2. Btusen takk
    3. CLas mujeres beben agua
  2. 2What is a metaphor?
    1. AA figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two.
    2. BImage for option B
    3. Ckinda like a simile but not a simile
  3. 3What is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences?
    1. Apersonification
    2. BJeg beklager
    3. CAssonance
  4. 4What is a word, phrase or other form used in informal language?
    1. Acolloquialism
    2. BStrayan
    3. Cbokmål
  5. 5What is a metonym ?
    1. AImage for option A
    2. BA figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
    3. CA journey
  6. 6What is Onomatopoeia?
    1. AFrench toast
    2. Bthe formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
    3. CImage for option C
  7. 7What is an oxymoron?
    1. Aa figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory.
    2. BThe act of bass slaping
    3. CA fire rap album by based QImage for option C
  8. 8What is alliteration?
    1. AThe flux capacitor
    2. BGwuiyun's favourite food
    3. Ca stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase.
  9. 9What is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.
    1. AImage for option A
    2. Bcliché
    3. CFrench pastry
  10. 10What is emotive language?
    1. Ahe deliberate choice of words to elicit emotion (usually to influence).
    2. BImage for option B
    3. CSpain was one of the most powerful nations in the world around the 1500s. At this time, different nations would race each other to be the first to settle in and claim different areas. According to historians, there were three objectives for taking the Philippine islands. First and foremost, it was seen as an opportunity to spread the Roman Catholic church, which had become quite powerful in Europe. The other objectives may have been to gain wealth through the spice trade in Asia, and also to gain political power by conquering and laying claim to as many lands as possible.

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