VAC 8- Literature/ Poetry

Which of the sentences is an example of personification?

• A rusted stove crouched in the corner.

• In the race, Evan ran like a gazelle.

• The trail bent left, toward the creek.

• She sat happily, nodding her head.

I stared out the window of my drab, cramped room. A single bird scored across the sky, its wings spread wide and free. The bird in these sentences symbolizes ----------

• Boredom

• The sky

• Freedom

• The window

Which choice contains a simile?

• The sheriff was a hearty fellow.

• Amelia likes to jog before breakfast.

• The stream gurgled over the rocks.

• Pynchon’s Pond was a smooth as glass.

Which of these best defines the use of personification?

• Two unlike things are compared by using like or as.

• Two unlike things are compared by saying that one is the other.

• A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.

• Human behavior is described in terms of animal behavior.

The sound device that uses words to imitate sounds is

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

The surface of the pond was a mirror reflecting the summer clouds.

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

As Cara shuffled through the neglected, barren parking lot, she thought about the fight. Edie would never forgive her for what she had said. Their friendship was over. Then Cara saw it. A small, brilliantly red flower had managed to grow through one of the many jagged cracks of the parking lot. It stood in the midst of the parking lot like a lone boat in the middle of the ocean. How it had survived in this wasteland, Cara would never know. But seeing this unlikely flower, she began to think that anything was possible. Maybe Edie would forgive her.

1-What does the flower symbolize?

• Desperation

• Excitement

• Hope

• Anger

What type of sound device is used in this line of poetry?

A tapering turret overtops the work

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

Which of these is an example of the use of figurative language?

• The breeze rustled the leaves of the tall elms.

• The grain stalks bowed to one another in the breeze.

• The wind chimes dinged and clanged in the breeze.

• A sudden breeze cooled our hot faces as we worked.

When my mother died I was very young,

And my father sold me while yet my tongue

Could scarcely cry “weep! Weep! Weep! Weep!

So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

There’s little Tom Dacre ,who cried when his head,

That curled like a lamb’s back, was shaved; so I said

“Hush , Tom! never mind it for, when your head’s bare,

“You know tht the soot cannot spoil your white hair.”

-from “ The Chimney-Sweeper” by William Blake

3-Which of these is an example of end rhyme from the poem?

• Young/weep

• Sleep/head

• Said/bare

• Bare/hair