Literary Terms Diagnostic

“Yes, even that tough-minded old Swede, who’d go up to the devil himself and ask him for a light.” 

• hyperbole
• simile
• personification
• alliteration

“The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window” 

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

“It’s so dark,” he thought, “that I could sleep without closing my eyes.” 

• personification
• allusion
• hyperbole
• alliteration

“The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies.”  

• simile
• allusion
• personification
• metaphor

“He flung himself down at the jungle edge and tumbled headlong into the deepest sleep of his life” 

• hyperbole
• paradox
• personification
• allusion

“it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows.” 

• allusion
• personification
• metaphor
• paradox

“it startled him with its booming loudness” 

• personification
• allusion
• paradox
• onomatopoeia

“The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse.” 

• metaphor
• simile
• allusion
• personification

“His hands were tight closed as if his nerve were something tangible that some one in the darkness was trying to tear from his grip.” 

• allusion
• personification
• paradox
• simile

“The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house, speaking softly the names of our dead.”

• simile
• personification
• paradox
• metaphor