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Literary Devices

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  • Q1
    "The sun was like a large ball of butter" is an example of what literary technique?
    Simile
    Personification
    Paradox
    Oxymoron
    30s
  • Q2
    "The wall stared at me silently" is an example of what type of literary tool?
    Metonymy
    Allitearation
    Personification
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q3
    "If I do not eat my daily papaya, I will surely die" is an example of what type of literary device?
    Metaphor
    Personification
    Paradox
    Hyperbole
    30s
  • Q4
    "The road was a ribbon of moonlight," is an example of which of these literary techniques?
    Oxymoron
    Metaphor
    Paradox
    Personification
    30s
  • Q5
    "Flaming ice" is an example of what literary technique?
    Oxymoron
    Metonymy
    Simile
    Synecdoche
    30s
  • Q6
    "Bob is as brave as a lion" is an example of what literary device in action?
    Personification
    Simile
    Metonymy
    Metaphor
    30s
  • Q7
    "I simultaneously composed and destroyed the opera while writing it" is an example of what kind of literary device?
    Oxymoron
    Metonymy
    Mataphor
    Paradox
    30s
  • Q8
    "The boy believed black birds bite" is an example of?
    Paradox
    Assonance
    Hyperbole
    Alliteration
    30s
  • Q9
    "Cra-aack! Whumph! The beam broke and fell on them" is an example of ?
    Assonance
    Oxymoron
    Alliteration
    Onomatopoeia
    30s
  • Q10
    "Good day," said the Scarecrow, in a rather husky voice, is an example of?
    synecdoche
    Anthropomorphism
    Hyperbole
    Personification
    30s

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