Analogy, Allusion, Anecdote

During a speech about overcoming challenges, Scarlett shares a short story from her own life that relates to the topic. What is this type of story called?

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

Samuel is giving a presentation on how the internet works. He uses an extended comparison to help his audience understand this complex idea by relating it to a postal system. What is this technique called?

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

Zoe is writing an essay and mentions "a Herculean task" to describe a difficult challenge, referencing the Greek hero Hercules. What is this type of reference to something outside of a text called? (It can be mythological, literary, historical, biblical, etc.)

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

During a music appreciation class, Isla remarked, "Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite." What literary device is Isla using in her statement?

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• allusion

• anecdote

Many years had elapsed during which nothing of Combray, save what was comprised in the theatre and the drama of my going to bed there, had any existence for me, when one day in winter, as I came home, my mother, seeing that I was cold, offered me some tea, a thing I did not ordinarily take. I declined at first, and then, for no particular reason, changed my mind. She sent out for one of those short, plump little cakes called ‘petites madeleines,’ which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrim’s shell. - Swann’s Way of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

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Lily tells her friend, "When your parents learn about your new plan to raise money, it's going to sink like the Titanic."

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• anecdote

During a heated family dinner, Nora asked about an old argument, and her mother said, "She opened Pandora’s box with that question."

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• allusion

• anecdote

After graduating, Daniel realized that what he became depended on what he read after all of the professors had finished with him. He found that the greatest university of all was a collection of books.

• analogy

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• anecdote

Oh, I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts’ secrets, Igor. Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. - In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Albus Dumbledore

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

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The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest. - To Kill a Mockingbird

• analogy

• allusion

• anecdote

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