Lit devices examples

What type of literary device is the following quote?

"I got power, poison, pain"?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

What type of literary device is the following quote from Fahrenheit 451?

"Here." Far away across town in the night, the faintest whisper of a turned page. "The Book of Job."

• Irony

• Juxtaposition

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What type of literary device is in the quote below?

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of literary device is in the quote below?

I know the action in the street is excitin’

But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n’ fightin’

I’ve been readin’ and writin’

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Onomatopeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

What type of literary device is in the quote below?

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights: Yes, we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness: Yes, we can.

• Anaphora

• Irony

• Epistrophe

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of literary device is in the quote below?

I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.

• Onomatopeia

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Montag glancing at the vent in part one of F451 and feeling guilty about the (unknown to us) contents inside is an example of what literary device?

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Irony

• Juxtaposition

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What type of literary device is in the quote below?

It's like rain on your wedding day

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Irony

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CCSS.L.8.5A

What type of literary device is in the quote below?

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What type of literary device is in the quote below?

His eyes were diamonds.

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D