The Tell-Tale Heart and Figurative Language Quiz

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."

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?

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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