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The Great Gatsby Figurative Language

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types of fig lang

Start

QUESTION 1/10

What is epizeuxis?

a repetition of a word or a short phrase in succession to each other

the land where Giselle is from

believing in love at first sight

QUESTION 2/10

What is imagery?

descriptive language that evokes sensory experience

making a comparison between two things

making a visual out of the word's shapes

Right!

Next

question 3/10

What is vernacular?

the language or dialect spoken by the area

making an extremem exaggeration

making an unclear comparison

question 4/10

What is a hyperbole?

extreme exaggeration

making a comparison using like or as

giving inhuman things human characteristics

RIGHT!

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Question 5/10

What is personification?

a commonly used expression that has acquired a different meaning from literal

words used as sound effects

giving human characteristics to something inhuman

Question 6/10

What is an allusion?

referencing something culturally popular or well known

a contradition figure of speech

making a comparison using like or as

right!

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question 7/10

What is an idiom?

a commonly used expression that has acquired a different meaning from literal

extreme unrealistic description

words that become sound effects

question 8/10

What is an otomatopoeia?

a commonly used expression that has acquired a different meaning from literal

words used as sound effects

an incomplete joke

RIGHT!

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question 9/10

What is an oxymoron?

a sarcastic comparison

a figure of speech that contradicts itself

Words that paint a picture

question 10/10

What is a metaphor?

Comparing two things without using like or as

Comparing two things using like or as

A figure of speech that contradicts itself

level complete!

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Level 2

Pirates Galore Mateys!

Start

Match the literary device or figurative language to the example.

question 1/5

"'Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!' shouted Mrs. Wilson. 'I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai--'"

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Epizeuxis

QUESTION 2/5

"Don't give it another thought, old sport."

Vernacular

Oxymoron

Allusion

QUESTION 3/5

Jordan's family is "one aunt about a thousand years old."

Hyperbole

Simile

Onomatopoeia

QUESTION 4/5

“And inside, as we wandered through Marie Antoinette music-rooms and Restoration salons...”

Metaphor

Allusion

Oxymoron

QUESTION 5/5

“Her voice is full of money. ”

Hyperbole

Oxymoron

Metaphor

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Level 3

Help the shepherd dog to collect all the farm animals.

start

question 1/10

“Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.“

Simile

Oxymoron

question 2/10

"Of course, of course! They're fine!" and he added hollowly, "...old sport.”

Epizeuxis

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

question 3/10

“...and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts."

Otomatopoeia

Idiom

Oxymoron

question 4/10

“There was the boom of a bass drum.”

simile

oxymoron

otomatopoeia

question 5/10

What fascinates Owl Eyes?

question 6/10

“At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses.”

metaphor

similie

question 7/10

"Mr. Wolfsheim, forgetting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy."

Allusion

Otomatopoeia

Oxymoron

question 8/10

Who does Nick know at Gatsby's party?

question 9/10

“At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses."

Simile

Metaphor

question 10/10

"On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn."

Oxymoron

Personification

Hyperbole

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You have collected all the farm animals .

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Level 4
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question 1 of 5

“This is a valley of ashes a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens at intervals”

oxymoron

simile

allusion

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question 2 of 5

“...on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Mæcenas knew.”

Antonomosia

Hyperbole

Allusion

CORRECT!

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question 3 of 5

“All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the Beale Street Blues. “

Personification

Metaphor

Otomatopoeia

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question 4 of 5

"Taking our skepticism for granted, he rushed to the bookcases and returned with Volume One of the ‘Stoddard Lectures."

Allusion

Hyperbole

Vernacular

CORRECT!

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question 5 of 5

“A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosting wedding cake of the ceiling...”

Metaphor

Oxymoron

Vernacular

CORRECT!

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