Figurative Language in Literature

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“The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.” — Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell. What literary device is used in this sentence? Options: personification, metaphor, hyperbole, simile

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simile

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What literary device is used in the lines from Emily Dickinson's poem: “Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.” ? Options: metaphor, personification, simile, hyperbole

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personification

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What literary device is used in the sentence: "I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far." Old Times on the Mississippi by Mark Twain? Options: hyperbole, simile, metaphor, oxymoron

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hyperbole

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”
What literary device is used in this excerpt? Options: onomatopoeia, hyperbole, simile, alliteration

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alliteration

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What literary device is used in the phrase: “Mr. Neck storms into class, a bull chasing thirty-three red flags.”? Options: alliteration, personification, simile, metaphor

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metaphor

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Identify the figure of speech in the following passage: “But now, O Lord, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand.” —Isaiah 64:8 Options: simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, alliteration

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metaphor

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“Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East . . .” — Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie. What literary device is used in this sentence?

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simile

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What literary device is used in the sentence: "The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light."

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metaphor

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What literary device is exemplified in the phrases "brawling love" and "loving hate" from Romeo's speech?

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oxymoron

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What literary device is exemplified in the phrase "brawling love" and "loving hate"?

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oxymoron