The Tell-Tale Heart and Figurative Language

Those shoes COST AN ARM AND A LEG! What does this idiom mean?

• They go on both feet

• They are yellow

• They are expensive

• They are cheap

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Identify what is being used. "The band played to a small crowd at the concert."

(a)  

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Read to following and determine what type of figurative language is being used.

Hold fast to dreams,

For if the dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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A train is a dragon that roars through the dark

      He wriggles his tail as he sends up a spark.

      He pierces the night with his one yellow eye,

      And all the Earth trembles as he rushes by.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

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"Death in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim." This is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

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Which of the narrator's senses was acute in the beginning of the story?

(a)  

How does the narrator feel when he opens the lantern and sees the old man's open eye?

• Afraid

• Furious

• Calm

• Sad

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What is a Hyperbole?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• An expression that doesn't exactly mean what the words say

• Words that create an exaggerated comparison or overstatement

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

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What word means an uncertain belief?

• Supposition

• Sagacity

• Dissimulation

• Vehemently

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Which of the following words BEST replaces sagacity, in the passage below?

“Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine. Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers- of my sagacity.”

• Supidity

• Righteousness

• Determination

• Cleverness

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