"Loyalties"
Choose the definition below which matches the bold word in the following sentence:
The clouds and rain portended a disastrous outcome for the team.
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Responses
created
created
foreshadowed
foreshadowed
imagined
imagined
remembered
remembered
foreshadowed
__________ is when an event or action seems ridiculously out of place within a story.
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Responses
Hyperbole
Hyperbole
Incongruity
Incongruity
Irony
Irony
Sarcasm
Sarcasm
Incongruity
All of the following quotes from "Loyalties" are examples of sarcasm except
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"Whether we are in Nigeria or whether we are in Biafra we are almost out of firewood."
"Whether we are in Nigeria or whether we are in Biafra we are almost out of firewood."
"Good. Now if twenty Nigerian soldiers march into our village and five Biafran wormen attack them with saucepans who will win?"
"Good. Now if twenty Nigerian soldiers march into our village and five Biafran wormen attack them with saucepans who will win?"
"After all, he is now a Biafran goat so we must take better care of him."
"After all, he is now a Biafran goat so we must take better care of him."
"So this is your great Biafra? Where is Ojukwu, I didn't see him?"
"So this is your great Biafra? Where is Ojukwu, I didn't see him?"
Which type of humor did the author most likely intentionally use when titling the story "Loyalties?"
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Responses
hyperbole
hyperbole
incongruity
incongruity
irony
irony
sarcasm
irony
Which of the following sentences has an unnecessary shift in tense?
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Responses
The time keeper started the clock and then stops it abruptly.
The time keeper started the clock and then stops it abruptly.
The time keeper starts the clock and then stops it abruptly.