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You've just finished the hardest workout of
your entire life, you're moments away from
dropping dead from exhaustion, and a friend
comes by and sees you sweaty, huffing and
puffing, and says, "Tired?" and you answer,
"Just a little.”
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A. This is a hyperbole
B. This is an understatement
C. This is situational irony
This is a metaphor
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The witches in the opening scene of
Shakespeare's Macbeth __________________ the
evil events that will follow.
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A. Personify
B. Symbolize
C. Narrate
D. Foreshadow
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Read the following excerpt and determine what
literary device is mostly represented
I sat slowly on the swing as he came up and
pushed me back and forth. We laughed and told
jokes while watching the little children running
around. I remembered my childhood, when it
used to be my dad pushing me, when it used to
be me running uncontrollably. But now I was
grown up, swinging on a swing, my husband
pushing me, and my children running without
reason.
◦ A. Foreshadowing
◦ B. Pun
C. Flashback
D. Personification
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Dressy daffodils, rabbits running over roses,
and the wild, whistling wind, are all examples
of a(n)
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A. Hyperbole
B. Irony
C. Alliteration
D. Onomaopoeia
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A woman is apprehensive about attending a
wedding due to being single, she however
goes and meets her future husband there.
This is an example of:
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A. Pun
B. Metaphor
C. Situational Irony
D. Symbolism
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Mother comes into the TV room and discovers her 11year-old watching South Park instead of doing his
homework, as he was set to a dozen minutes ago.
Pointing to the screen she says, "Don't let me tempt you
from your duties, kiddo, but when you're finished with
your serious studies there, maybe we could take some
time out for recreation and do a little math.
Dad is finally out of patience with picking up after his
son, who can't seem to be trained to put his dirty
clothes in the hamper instead of letting them drop
wherever he happens to be when he takes them off.
"Would Milord please let me know when it pleases him
to have his humble servant pick up after him?”
These are both examples of:
A. Dramatic Irony
B. Situational Irony
C. Verbal Irony
D. Foreshadowing
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In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is seen taking a
potion that temporary makes her appear
dead. Later Romeo finds her and kills himself
because he believes her to be dead. Finally at
the end of the play, Juliet discovers that
Romeo has killed himself and takes her own
life.
This is an example of
A. Foreshadowing
C. Tone
B. Refrain
D. Dramatic Irony
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He was eager to help but his legs were
rubber… is an example of:
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A. a metaphor
B. a paradox
C. personification
D. tone
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Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave
and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be
shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven. Ghastly grim and
ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore Tell me what thy lordly
name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the raven,
"Nevermore." Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so
plainly, Though its answer little meaning little relevancy bore; For we
cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed
with seeing bird above his chamber door Bird or beast above the
sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
"Nevermore." But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke
only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did
outpour. Nothing further then he uttered not a feather then he
fluttered Till I scarcely more than muttered "Other friends have flown
before On the morrow will he leave me, as my hopes have flown
before." Then the bird said, "Nevermore."
The use of the word “nevermore” at the end of each stanza is an
example of:
A. Repetition
B. Refrain
C. Personification
D. Understatement
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Nobody goes to that restaurant, it's too
crowded. If you get this message, call me; if
you don't, then don't worry about it. If a
person says about himself that he always lies,
is that that the truth or a lie???
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The above sentences are all examples of:
A. Onomatopoeias
B. Similes
C. Understatements
D. Paradoxes
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Knock-knock Who's there?
Boo
Boo who?
Don't
cry, I was only joking
This is an example of
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A. A flashback
B. A hyperbole
C. Irony
D. An onomatopoeia
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“The run down house appeared depressed”
and “The first rays of morning tiptoed
through the meadow” are both examples of...
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A. Flashbacks
B. Personification
C. Irony
D. Alliterations
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"The rain falls like the sun,
rising upon the
mountains.”
The above quote is an example of
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A. a simile
B. a metaphor
C. depressed tone
D. personification
Hear the sledges with the bells -Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells –
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells
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In Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Bells,” The author sees
multiple examples of
A. Repetition
C. Tone
B. Simile
D. Understatement
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Part I: Read the following quotations from
literature, and decide on the best tone word
in the set of options.
“I shall throw you on a black ship and send
you to the mainland, To King Echetos,
destroyer of all mortal men, Who will cut off
your nostrils with a sharp bronze sword; He
will tear of your private parts and give them
to the dogs to eat raw.”--Homer, The
Odyssey
A) Threatening B) Amused C) Proud
D) Unsatisfied
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“There were always children there, and I spent
all my time with the children, only with the
children. They were the children of the village
where I lived, a whole gang of them who went
to the local school. I was simply with them
mostly, and I spent all my four years like that.
I did not want anything else.”--Dostoyevsky,
The Idiot
How does the speaker feel about/toward the
subject?
A) Amused B) Reflective
C) Reverent D) Remorseful
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The color red for 'warning', 'desire, sin, guilt,
pain, passion, and blood. These are all
examples of:
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A. Understatements
B. Similes
C. Symbolism
D. Foreshadowing
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“I’m so hungry I could eat a horse” and “He’s
so dumb that if breathing weren’t natural
he’d be dead” are both examples of
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A. hyperbole
B. Irony
C. Metaphor
D. Repetition