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Duplicate of Literary Devices
Duplicate of Literary Devices
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What device? "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process."
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Analogy
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What device is here? "Cough. Sputter. Nothing."
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Metaphor
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What device is this?
Rhyme
Oxymoron
Pun
Alliteration
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What TWO devices are used here? "The car guzzled gas greedily."
Alliteration and personification
Onomatopoeia and metaphor
Hyperbole and simile
Oxymoron and imagery
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Which type of irony? "Gary gets hit in the face with a ball. His friend asks him how he feels and he says, "Wonderful."
Not irony
Situational irony
Verbal irony
Dramatic irony
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True or False: Alliteration always uses words that start with the same letter.
True
False
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What device is this? "His honest lie was received with deafening silence."
Oxymoron
Personification
Alliteration
Allusion
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What device? To start the essay, the writer tells a short personal story about a particularly memorable English class.
Anecdote
Irony
Allusion
Foreshadowing
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Which is an example of alliteration?
wrong water
cracked cymbal
honest hero
jittery giraffe
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What device is this? In Zootopia, present-day Nick (an adult fox) remembers when he was a young fox and got bullied.
Dialogue
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Irony
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What device is this?
Oxymoron
Allusion
Dialogue
Flashback
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What device is this? Franny meticulously washes the dishes after dinner. Later it is revealed a guest died of poison.
Flashback
Dialogue
Irony
Foreshadowing
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What device is here? "He was a real Romeo, but romantic declarations were his Achilles heel."
Oxymoron
Anaphora
Allusion
Paradox
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What device is here? "The kitchen was filled with the aroma of roasting tomatoes, with a hint of sharp cheddar."
Imagery
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
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What TWO devices are here? "Something buzzed like a mosquito underneath the howl of the tanker."
Metaphor and hyperbole
Simile and onomatopoeia
Metaphor and imagery
Simile and hyperbole
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What device is here? "I've been waiting in line at this restaurant forever. They can hear my stomach grumbling in Mars."
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification