Question

6. 'My son's teacher made it clear that cheating in Exam was no laughing
matter."​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

'Out in the porch's sagging floor, Leaves got up in a coil and hissed, Blindly struck at my knee and missed.'

metaphor

irony

simile

hyperbole

2. George Bush talked during his campaign about 'compassionate conservatism', which to many liberals sounds like a(n) ___________________.

apostrophe

synecdoche

oxymoron

euphemism

3. 'Necessity is the mother of invention.'

litotes

personification

oxymoron

paradox

4. 'The poor people of Ireland should rid themselves of poverty by selling their children to the rich to eat.'

irony

logorrhea

paradox

neologism

5. The phrases 'the humming bee', 'the cackling hen', and 'the buzzing saw' are examples of ________________.

onomatopoeia

metonymy

personification

spoonerisms

6. 'How many times have I told you to clean your room?'

rhetorical question

oxymoron

hyperbole

eponymy

7. 'To err is human, to forgive divine.'

irony

simile

antithesis

litotes