Figurative Devices

Figurative Devices

12th Grade

10 Qs

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Figurative Devices

Figurative Devices

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English

12th Grade

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CCSS
L.11-12.5, RL.11-12.4, RL.11-12.6

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.”

Alliteration

Allusion

Repetition

Understatement

Answer explanation

Media Image

The first three words begin with a repeated 'w' sound: an absolutely amazing alliteration

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Hyperbole

Simile

Allusion

Personification

Answer explanation

Media Image

'Eden' is a reference to the Garden of Eden: a Biblical allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Yet the Man would at once run away with your heart;

And I for five centuries right gladly would be

Such an odd such a kind happy creature as he.

Hyperbole

Repetition

Oxymoron

Onomatopoiea

Answer explanation

How many of you would be alive to do anything for five centuries? This is too much of an exaggeration- a hyperbole!

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Water, water, everywhere,

Nor any drop to drink

Irony

Allusion

Understatement

Personification

Answer explanation

Media Image

You'd expect that if you were surrounded by water, there would be plenty to drink- most ironic!

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

"But outer Space,

At least this far,

For all the fuss

Of the populace

Stays more popular

Than populous"

Pun

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

Simile

Answer explanation

Here Robert Frost plays on the words 'populace' and 'populous,' which both sound the same- a pun

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

"Hope" is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

Metaphor

Allusion

Alliteration

Oxymoron

Answer explanation

In one of her most famous poems, Emily Dickinson compares the abstract concept of 'hope' to a bird- the thing with feathers: a metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

How they clang, and clash, and roar!

What a horror they outpour

On the bosom of the palpitating air!

Yet the ear it fully knows,

By the twanging

And the clanging...

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Understatement

Hyperbole

Answer explanation

Media Image

Clang, clash, roar, twanging, clanging- these words all sound the same as the sounds the bells make: five examples of onomatopoeia!

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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