Literary Devices Quiz

The following quote is an example of which type of figurative language: "I wanted to run away, but my feet were nailed to the floor. Idek grabbed me by the throat."

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Identify the predicate noun in this sentence: Elie Wiesel was a survivor and lonely.

• Elie Wiesel

• lonely

• a survivor

• was

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

In the poem "Concentration Constellation," Inada is comparing:

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• The road to large western cities and the path of planets in the solar system

• A constellation’s shape to the map of different concentration camps

• The distance between stars of constellations to map coordinates

• The distance to various stars to the distance between cities in the Southwest

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Define predicate adjective

• a verb in the sentence that shows the action of the subject

• an adjective that appears with a linking verb and describes the subject

• a noun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject

• an adjective that follows an action verb and renames the subject

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Define predicate noun

• an adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the verb

• a phrase that follows an action verb and renames the subject

• a noun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject

• a verb in the sentence that shows the action of the subject

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

In Night, Elie Wiesel presents the following conflicts:

• Man vs. society and man vs. self

• Man vs. man and man vs. technology

• Man vs. technology and man vs. nature

• Man vs. man and man vs. self

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

When the name Manzanar is mentioned in stanza 4 of “Concentration Constellation” is it an example of this type of literary device:

• juxtaposition

• personification

• allusion

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings, not even with family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin."

• indirect, actions

• indirect

• direct (tells)

• indirect, other characters’ reactions

Identify the predicate noun

in this sentence: Lawson Fusao Inada is a writer and talented.

• talented

• Writer

• Lawson

• is

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Which statements below are true?

• A memoir writer must stick to the facts

• A fiction writer can make things up.

• It is always in third person point-of-view.

• It has a plot structure.

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D