Literary Terms in Flowers for Algernon (abridged)

Which type of literary term is this an example of?

Miss Kinnian said, “If you volunteer for this experiment, you might get smart. They don’t know if it will be permanent, but there’s a chance.”

• foreshadowing

• cliffhanger

• irony

• personification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

This is an example of which literary element?

"I didn't want to think of the possibility [of the success of the operation only being temporary] any more than elderly people want to think of death."

• irony

• allusion

• analogy

• setting

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

At the end of the story, when Charlie is regressing, he says, "I don't blame anyone. I knew what might happen. But how it hurts." Contrasting this statement with his earlier statement, "I don't care if it hurts," is an example of which literary element?

• foreshadow

• theme

• simile

• irony

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The story being told through the journal writings of Charlie Gordon is an example of which of the following points of view?

• first person point of view

• second person point of view

• third person limited omniscient point of view

• third person omniscient point of view

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The following quote is an example of which type of figurative language? "[My intellect] is slipping away like sand through my fingers."

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

This quote is an example of which literary element?

"If not for Eve listening to the snake and eating from the tree of knowledge, none of us would ever have to grow old and sick, and die."

• irony

• foreshadow

• personification

• flashback

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“I’ve got to try to hold on to some of it. Some of the things I’ve learned. Oh, God, please don’t take it all away.” Which literary term is this an example of?

• suspense

• direct characterization

• analogy

• climax

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CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which literary term is this quote an example of? “It was evil when Eve listened to the snake and ate from the tree of knowledge [of good and evil].”

• setting

• allusion

• pun

• irony

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“You’re like a giant sponge now, soaking things in.”

Which type of figurative language is this?

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“I feel the darkness closing in.”

Which type of figurative language is this?

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

• analogy

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9