FREE ENGLISH VOCABULARY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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FREE ENGLISH VOCABULARY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

GRADE 9 ENGLISH EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -46 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert- Explanation

Question 1: Polyptoton Pun

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repetition of the words with the same root ("The things you own end up owning you."-Chuck Palahniuk).

Question 2: Metalepsis

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Referencing one thing through the means of another thing, which is related to the first one.Ex: "Stop judging people so strictly-you live in a glass house too." (A hint at the proverb: people who live in glass houses should not throw stones.)

Question 3: Hyperbole

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Exaggeration of the statement.

Ex: If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times.

Question 4: Chiasmus

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An inverted parallelism

Ex: We shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us

Question 5: Parallelism

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Arranging a sentence in such a manner that it has parallel structure.Ex: "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I will learn." (Benjamin Franklin)

Question 6: Verbal Irony

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(Antiphrasis) - using words to express something different from their literal meaning for ironic effect ("I'm so excited to burn the midnight oil and write my academic paper all week long").

Question 7: Adnomination

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Repetition of words with the same root. The difference lies in one sound or letter. A nice euphony can be achieved by using this poetic device.

Examples: Someone, somewhere, wants something.

Question 8: Antithesis

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Emphasizing contrast between two things or fictional characters.Ex: "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Question 9: Antanaclasis Pun

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repetition of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning ("Cats like Felix like Felix."-"Felix" catfood slogan).

Question 10: Explicit

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In advertising- obvious, clear, specific, and detailed. Leave little room for interpretation.Ex: ad for juice stating that it contains or your recommended daily vitamin C

Question 11: Anticlimax

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Tension descends.ex.Tension builds in a horror movie as a young girl approaches a closed door. There is a scratching sound coming from behind the door. When she opens it, a cat comes out

Question 12: Dramatic Irony

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situation is understandable for the audience but not the fictional character/actor (audience sees that the fictional characters/actors will be killed now, though the characters don't expect it).

Question 13: Assonance

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Repetition of vowels in order to create internal rhyming.

Ex: "Hear the mellow wedding bells." (Edgar Allan Poe)

Question 14: Malapropism Pun

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usage of the incorrect word instead of the word with a similar sound ("optical delusion" instead of "optical illusion").

Question 15: Metonymy

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Giving a thing another name that is associated with it.

Ex: The heir to the crown was Richard. (the crown stands for authority)

Question 16: Hypophora

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Asking a question and answering it right away.

Ex: Are you going to leave now? I don't think so.

Question 17: Epiphora

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Word repetition at the end of sentences.Ex: "And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." (Abraham Lincoln)

Question 18: Merism

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Describing people/objects by enumerating their traits.

Ex: Lock, stock, and barrel (gun); heart and soul (entirety)

Question 19: Rhetorical question

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Questioning without expecting the answer.

Examples: Why not?

Are you kidding me?

Question 20: Personification

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Attributing human characteristics to nonhumans.Ex: Practically all animals in fairy tales act like human beings. They speak and have traits that are typical of people.

Question 21: Parenthesis

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nterrupting a sentence by inserting extra information enclosed in brackets, commas, or dashes.Ex: Our family (my mother, sister, and grandfather) had a barbeque this past weekend.

Question 22: Climax

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Arranging text in such a manner that tension gradually ascends.Ex. He was a not bad listener, a good speaker and an amazing performer.

Question 23: Ellipsis

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Word or phrase omission.

Ex: I speak lots of languages, but you only speak two (languages).

Question 24: Epigram

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Memorable and brief saying, usually satirical.

Ex: "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." (Virginia Woolf)