Literary Devices and Genres Assessment

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What is this an example of?: “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse?”

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Hyperbole

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What is this an example of?: “The ant scurried as fast as a cheetah?”

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Simile

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What is this an example of?: a fire station burns down

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Situational irony

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What is this an example of?: the audience knows Jaws is in the water before the unsuspecting swimmers do

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Situational irony

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What genre is this text an example of?: The Great Gatsby

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Fiction

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What genre is this text an example of?: an essay you wrote about your Junior year of high school

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Nonfiction

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What genre is this text an example of?: history or science textbooks

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Nonfiction

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What genre is this text an example of?: “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe or odes written by Shakespeare

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Poetry

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What type of conflict is this an example of?: John Proctor is torn about whether to come clean and admit his affair or protect himself

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Character vs. self

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What type of conflict is this an example of?: Abigail wants Elizabeth Proctor jailed or hanged.

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Character vs. character