Final Exam Review

Look at these lines from Edgar Allan Poe's "Tell Tale Heart". What literary device is present in these lines?
"How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story."

• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Personification
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

REPEAT a CONSONANT sound throughout a part of a text (anything other than "a", "e", "I", "o", or "u") is known as 

• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Repetition
• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Read this line. What literary device do you spot?
"Though they knew it not, their baby’s cries were lovely as jeweled butterflies."

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

When an author compares two unlike things and uses either "like" or "as" to do so, this is an example of

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Tone
• Imagery

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

When an author makes a comparison between 2 unlike things and does NOT use "like" or "as", we see which literary device?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Symbolism

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The "feel" of a text or the emotion that comes through in all of the lines is best described as a work's

• Allusion
• Allegory
• Tone
• Connotative meaning

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the tone of this text?
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

• Excitement
• Scorn
• Confusion
• Hatred

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Consider these lines of poetry. What literary device do you spot?
"There were no drums or saxophones, But just the clatter of their bones, Rolling, rattling carefree circus,
Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas."

• Onomatopoeia
• Symbolism
• Simile
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

When a line of text includes a word that almost makes the sound it means (like "bang", "oink", "clank"), it is an example of:

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The literary device that relies on you using any combination of your 5 senses is known as:

• Imagery
• Symbolism
• Personification
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3