“The thousand injuries of Fortunato
I had borne as best I could, but when
he ventured upon insult, I vowed
revenge.”
The Cask of Amontillado
By Edgar Allan Poe
A.
B.
C.
D.
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Symbolism
Theme
“The thousand injuries of Fortunato
I had borne as best I could, but when
he ventured upon insult, I vowed
revenge.”
The Cask of Amontillado
By Edgar Allan Poe
A.
B.
C.
D.
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Symbolism
Theme
“…the moon gazed on my midnight
labours, while, with unrelaxed and
breathless eagerness, I pursued nature
to her hiding-places.”
Frankenstein
By Mary Shelley
A.
B.
C.
D.
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
“…the moon gazed on my midnight
labours, while, with unrelaxed and
breathless eagerness, I pursued nature
to her hiding-places.”
Frankenstein
By Mary Shelley
A.
B.
C.
D.
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
“The greater part of the untested
men appeared quiet and absorbed.
They were going to look at the war,
the red animal—the blood-swollen
god.”
The Red Badge of Courage
By Stephen Crane
A.
B.
C.
D.
Simile
Symbol
Metaphor
Understatement
“The greater part of the untested
men appeared quiet and absorbed.
They were going to look at the war,
the red animal—the blood-swollen
god.”
The Red Badge of Courage
By Stephen Crane
A.
B.
C.
D.
Simile
Symbol
Metaphor
Understatement
“One, two! One, two! and through
and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.”
The Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll
A.
B.
C.
D.
Setting
Falling Action
Connotation
Onomatopoeia
“One, two! One, two! and through
and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.”
The Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll
A.
B.
C.
D.
Setting
Falling Action
Connotation
Onomatopoeia
“While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping…”
The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe
A.
B.
C.
D.
Figurative Language
Alliteration
Exposition
Hyperbole
“While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping…”
The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe
A.
B.
C.
D.
Figurative Language
Alliteration
Exposition
Hyperbole
“Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out
against the sky,
Like a patient etherized upon a
table.”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T.S. Eliot
A.
B.
C.
D.
Imagery
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Simile
“Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out
against the sky,
Like a patient etherized upon a
table.”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T.S. Eliot
A.
B.
C.
D.
Imagery
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Simile
“Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the
world.”
The Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
A.
B.
C.
D.
Hyperbole
Setting
Simile
Foreshadowing
“Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the
world.”
The Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
A.
B.
C.
D.
Hyperbole
Setting
Simile
Foreshadowing
“I celebrate myself and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as
good belongs to you.”
Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman
A.
B.
C.
D.
Figurative Language
Free Verse
Imagery
Hyperbole
“I celebrate myself and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as
good belongs to you.”
Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman
A.
B.
C.
D.
Figurative Language
Free Verse
Imagery
Hyperbole
“Why then, O brawling love! O loving
hate!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity;
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health!”
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
A.
B.
C.
D.
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Alliteration
“Why then, O brawling love! O loving
hate!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity;
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health!”
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
A.
B.
C.
D.
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Alliteration
“I have to have this operation. It isn’t
very serious. I have this tiny little
tumor on the brain.”
The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger
A.
B.
C.
D.
Figurative Language
Symbolism
Understatement
Connotation
“I have to have this operation. It isn’t
very serious. I have this tiny little
tumor on the brain.”
The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger
A.
B.
C.
D.
Figurative Language
Symbolism
Understatement
Connotation