21st Century Literature Reviewer

Identify what literary technique is being presented in the sentence.

The smell of baking muffins welcomed us inside.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Answer explanation

A smell can’t welcome, but we can still understand that the narrator of this sentence feels welcomed by the homey smell.

"O my Luve is like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody.That's sweetly played in tune."

--"A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• None of the choices

Answer explanation

Simile always uses comparing words like and as.

It's a traffic jam when you're already late

A "No smoking" sign on your cigarette break

It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

It's meeting the man of my dreams

And then meeting his beautiful wife.

~ Alanis Morissette

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Answer explanation

This song is entitled Ironic by Alanis Morissette.

In a few words, this song is about the irony that our lives reflect sometimes.

We constantly encounter situations where we expect certain things to happen, and unfortunately the opposite hit us: Irony of our Fate.

"I am so hungry that I can eat a horse"

This sentence is an example of:

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

Answer explanation

Hyperbole is a rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. (H.L. Mencken)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• None of the choices

A form of literature which deals with heroism and bravery of a character.

• Folk Songs

• Legend

• Epic

• Fables

This is a literature passed on by word of mouth shared among people of a culture.

• Folk Songs

• Folktales

• Epic

• Legend

An element of poetry that says one thing but meaning another.

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

The repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of or inside successive words.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

It is an element of a plot where the conflict is slowly revealed.

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action