Literary Device EXAMPLES

Question 1

First they went to the house, then the party, then the lake. Then they went back home.

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plot

Question 2

higher education, military intelligence, jumbo shrimp

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oxymoron

Question 3

I walked the dog, fixed supper, and did the dishes.

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parallelism

Question 4

The ramshackle wooden house sat all alone, paint peeling, and windows broken.

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imagery

Question 5

here, there, sere, were

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sight rhyme

Question 6

She looked at her shoes sadly. "If only I could click you together and go home," she thought.

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allusion

Question 7

red = anger, passion, love / white = innocence / yellow = joy, knowledge

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color symbolism

Question 8

The sun smiled down on those enjoying the beach.

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personification

Question 9

She is as crazy as a loony bird.

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simile

Question 10

That guy is a tree!

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metaphor

Question 11

Hurricane Floyd was a disruption to life as normal for eastern North Carolina.

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understatement

Question 12

He survived the war, only to be killed by a bee sting.

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irony

Question 13

Paul purposefully placed the purple petunias near Pat.

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alliteration

Question 14

The poem is about the joy old friends bring us, and why we should treasure our time together.

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theme

Question 15

Boom! Pow! Crash! Meow!

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onomatopoeia

Question 16

I have told you that a million billion times!

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hyperbole

Question 17

"Should we?" "Yeah, why not. Let's go."

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dialogue

Question 18

His hands were rough, calloused from long hours working on the farm.

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characterization

Question 19

rob, bob, snob, cob

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rhyme

Question 20

It was a cold night on the shores of Lake Michigan.

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setting

Questions 20