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2. What is a hyperbole?

  • Hyperbole is deliberate over-exaggeration.
  • Hyperbole is a use of repetition.
  • Hyperbole is a phrase.

3. What is the study of 'spoken sounds'?

  • Phonetics is the study of spoken sound.
  • Semantics is the study of spoken sound.
  • Linguistics is the study of spoken sound.
  • Morphology is the study of spoken sound.

4. What is lexicology?

  • Lexicology studies the collection of words in a language.
  • Lexicology studies punctuation.
  • Lexicology studies the meaning of words.

5. Personification is...?

  • ... talking to people.
  • ... giving human characteristics to a non human (object).
  • ... talking about people.

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