Language & Style
This refers to an author's deliberate choice of words to express meaning and create a particular effect.
Diction
This figure of speech compares two unlike things using the words like or as.
Simile
This figure of speech gives human qualities to animals, objects, or ideas.
Personification
This sound device repeats the same beginning consonant sound in nearby words.
Alliteration
This refers to the background, circumstances, and conditions that help readers understand a literary text more deeply.
Context
Which sentence shows a descriptive and vivid style?
A. The sea was rough throughout the day, making it difficult for boats to travel safely across the water.
B. The sea was very blue and wavy.
C. Towering waves crashed against the shore as the sea roared like an angry beast.
D. The sea had plenty of fishes.
C. Towering waves crashed against the shore as the sea roared like an angry beast.
Which figure of speech is used in the sentence:
"The snow is a white blanket over the town."
Metaphor
Which sentence contains hyperbole?
A. She runs like the wind.
B. She is smiling from ear to ear.
C. The stars danced in the sky.
D. The White House issued a statement.
B. She is smiling from ear to ear.
Which sound device is used in the sentence:
"The yellow duck quacked as it jumped into the pond."
A. Assonance
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Consonance
D. Meter
B. Onomatopoeia
Which type of context focuses on the author's life experiences and beliefs?
A. Historical Context
B. Psychological Context
C. Biographical Context
D. Sociocultural Context
C. Biographical Context
Read the sentence:
"Our community stood together despite the storm."
What is the tone of the sentence?
Hopeful and admiring
Identify the figure of speech in the sentence:
"We will swear loyalty to the crown."
Metonymy
What figure of speech is used in the expression:
"Realistic fiction"
Oxymoron
Read the sentence:
"The baker made a cake for the late race."
Which sound device is most evident?
Assonance
In The Last Leaf, the struggles of artists, financial difficulties, and the threat of pneumonia reflect which type of context?
Sociocultural Context
Read the sentence:
"The man glared at the crowd."
What does the author's choice of the word 'glared' suggest about the man's attitude?
a feeling of anger or disapproval
Read the sentence:
"Lend me your ears."
If "ears" refers to the a person's interest to listen rather than the part of the body, what figure of speech is used?
Synecdoche
Read the statement:
"That exam was not impossible."
What figure of speech is used?
Litotes
Read the sentence:
"He struck a lucky streak of back lack."
Which sound device is demonstrated by the repeated /k/ sound within and at the end of nearby words?
Consonance
Read the situation:
A reader explains that Behrman's sacrifice demonstrates the importance of friendship, compassion, and helping others.
Which type of context is the reader using to analyze the story?
Sociocultural Context
A writer wants readers to feel peaceful and inspired while describing a sunrise. Which literary element should the writer focus on to create this emotional effect?
Mood
Which figure of speech best fits this statement?
"The more we communicate, the less we understand each other."
Paradox
Identify the figure of speech in the sentence:
"“Come on, car, please start!” (Speaking to an inanimate vehicle)"
Apostrophe
A poet wants to create a musical rhythm in a poem by using repeated ending sounds and a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Which two sound devices should the poet use?
Rhyme and Meter
Johnsy's journey from hopelessness, to believing she would die, to regaining hope after seeing the last leaf best illustrates which type of context?
Psychological Context