Analyzing Literary Devices 🔎
1 Point
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An author is reading a children's book while imitating a sound made by a character from the book, this character was a bee.
"Buzz..."
Analyze this circumstance and determine which of the following literary devices provided is the best fit for this situation:
A. Anaphora
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Symbolism
D. Flashback
B. Onomatopoeia
1 Point
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Please read and identify the literary device:
"I've told you a million times!"
Is it...
A. Simile
B. Hyperbole
C. Metaphor
D. Extended Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
1 Point
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Match the following literacy device, with its correct definition.
What is Allusion?
A. Indirectly refers to external people, events, or things.
B. Repetition of sounds.
C. The use of an object, event, or action to represent a deeper meaning or idea beyond its literal meaning.
A. Indirectly refers to external people, events, or things.
True Or False:
An octopus has 4 hearts.
True!
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2 Points
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A mother was watching a film titled True Lies (1994) while eating popcorn, the title seems to contradict itself.
Analyze this circumstance and determine which of the following literary devices provided is the best fit for this situation:
A. Irony
B. Paradox
C. Oxymoron
D. Allegory
C. Oxymoron
2 Points
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Please read and identify the literary device:
"The bees buzzed around the fragment flower bed present in my garden, a nice sight to see."
Is it...
A. Imagery
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Figurative Language
B. Onomatopoeia
2 Points
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Match the following literacy device, with its correct definition.
What is Juxtaposition?
A. Indirectly refers to external people, events, or things.
B. Comparing two or more people, events, or things.
C. In which the intended meaning of a word or expression is opposite to its usual sense.
A. Indirectly refers to external people, events, or things.
Riddle: If you throw a black stone into the Red Sea, what does it become?
Wet.
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3 Points
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William Shakespeare includes clocks in ancient Rome, as well as cannons in 11th-century Scotland throughout some of his many plays.
Analyze this circumstance and determine which of the following literary devices provided is the best fit for this situation:
A. Anachronism
B. Anthropomorphism
C. Assonance
D. Analogy
A. Anachronism
3 Points
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Please read and identify the literary device:
"O Romeo, Romeo!" said she, "wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, for my sake; or if thou wilt not, be but my sworn love, and I no longer will be a Capulet."
Is it...
A. Alliteration
B. Euphemism
C. Apostrophe
D. Parallelism
C. Apostrophe
3 Points
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Match the following literacy device, with its correct definition.
What is Euphemism?
A. A technique writers use when creating a specific effect, such as enhancing meaning and adding depth to a story.
B. Use of less direct word or phrase for one considered offensive.
C. The use of combining two words that are actually opposite of one another, making it more fluid and less offensive.
C. Use of less direct word or phrase for one considered offensive.
True or False:
The letter “T” is the most common letter in the english language
False!
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4 Points
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Frederick Douglass, an American Slave pleads for God to not let him die and perish as a slave.
Analyze this circumstance and determine which of the following literary devices provided is the best fit for this situation:
A. Symbolism
B. Narration
C. Apostrophe
D. Irony
C. Apostrophe
4 Points
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Please read and identify the literary device:
"You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom's swift-winged angles, that fly round the world ..." (par. 3, Douglass).
A. Apostrophe
B. Foreshadowing
C. Motif
D. Hyperbole
A. Apostrophe
4 Points
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Match the following literacy device, with its correct definition.
What is Malapropism?
A. Replacing a word for a similar sound, but it's used incorrectly.
B. Incorrect use of a word in place of a word with a similar sound.
C. Similar word that sounds the same and is replaced with a synonym to match that sound.
B. Incorrect use of a word in place of a word with a similar sound.
True or False:
A cockroach can live for 9 days without its head.
True!
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5 Points
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Throughout George Orwell's Animal Farm, a message is passed along, that being that "All animals are equal". However, this phrase seems to contradict itself as some animals are more equal than others.
Analyze this circumstance and determine which of the following literary devices provided is the best fit for this situation:
A. Anachronism
B. Paradox
C. Allusion
D. Anastrophe
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B. Paradox
5 Points
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Please read and identify the literary device:
"I am in the hottest hells of unending slavery." (par. 3, Douglass).
A. Hyperbole
B. Metaphor
C. Symbolism
D. Simile
E. Personification
A. Hyperbole
5 Points
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Match the following literacy device, with its correct definition.
What is Anachronism?
A. An emotional paradox where attachment intensifies in direct proportion to perceived detachment.
B. A chronological inconsistency where you juxtapose people, things, or sayings from different time periods.
C. Juxtaposition but in another form, usually expressed throughout the passage instead of a sentence. Similar to an extended metaphor.
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B. A chronological inconsistency where you juxtapose people, things, or sayings from different time periods.
Riddle: A man calls his dog from across a river, and the dog crosses without getting wet, a bridge, or a boat. How did the dog cross?
The water was frozen!
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