The Tell-Tale Heart and Figurative Language Flashcard

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Those shoes COST AN ARM AND A LEG!

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They are expensive

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Identify what is being used: "The band played to a small crowd at the concert."

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Oxymoron

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Determine the type of figurative language used: Hold fast to dreams, For if the dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly

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Personification

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A train is a dragon that roars through the dark       He wriggles his tail as he sends up a spark.       He pierces the night with his one yellow eye,       And all the Earth trembles as he rushes by.
Options: Alliteration, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Idiom

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Metaphor

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"Death in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim." This is an example of which type of figurative language?

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Personification

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Which of the narrator's senses was acute in the beginning of the story?

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Hearing

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How does the narrator feel when he opens the lantern and sees the old man's open eye? Options: Afraid, Furious, Calm, Sad

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Furious

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What is a Hyperbole?

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Words that create an exaggerated comparison or overstatement

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Supposition

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an uncertain belief

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Sagacity in the passage: “Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine. Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers- of my sagacity.”

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Cleverness