Quiz on Language Devices_DESTRUCTION

IDENTIFY A LANGUAGE TECHIQUE.

1.The city was a graveyard of dreams ; its streets littered with the shattered remnants of hope.

• SIMILE

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• METAPHOR

• .ALLITERATION

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

IDENTIFY A LANGUAGE DEVICE

2.The skyscrapers loomed like broken monuments; their twisted frames resembling skeletons reaching for the sky.

• METAPHOR

• SIMILE

• OXYMORON

• PERSONIFICATION

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

IDENTIFY A LANGUAGE TECHIQUE

3.    The city groaned under the weight of its own destruction; its crumbling buildings crying out in silent agony.

• COMPARISON

• METAPHOR

• PERSONIFICATION

• RULE OF THREE

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

IDENTIFY A LANGUAGE TECHIQUE  

4.Streets strewn with debris and despair, a symphony of sorrow echoing through the shattered skyline.

• OXYMORON

• RHETORICAL QUESTION

• SIMILE

• ALLITERTION

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

IDENTIFY A LANGAUGE DEVICE.

5. The destruction was of biblical proportions, as if the wrath of the gods themselves had been unleashed upon the city.

• HYPERBOLE

• SIMILE

• OXYMORON

• METAPHOR

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

6.  The crumbling and booming of falling buildings echoed through the empty streets - a cacophony of destruction that reverberated through the air.

• METAPHOR

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• SIMILE

• ZOOMORPHISM

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

IDENTIFY A LANGUAGE DEVICE

7.The ruined city was a hauntingly beautiful wasteland: desolate and eerie .

• METAPHOR

• SIMILE

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• OXYMORON

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

IDENTIFY 2 LANGUAGE DEVICES

8. A giant puzzle of the city loomed ahead : the streets blocked and broken.

• METAPHOR & ALLITERAQTION

• SIMILE & OXYMORON

• HYPERBOLE & SIMILE

• OXYMORON & METAPHOR

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

IDENTIFY TWO LANGAUGE DEVICES

9.The broken clock tower stood as a solemn reminder of time's relentless march; its hands pleading in perpetual despair.

• SIMILE & PERSONIFICATION

• OXYMORON & METAPHOR

• HYPERBOLE & SIMILE

• METAPHOR & PERSONIFICATION

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

IDENTIFY A LANGUAGE TECHNIQUE. CHOOSE 3 CORRECT ANSWERS

10. The city that once pulsated with life now lay silent and still - a ghostly memory of itself.

• ALLITERATION

• CONTRAST

• METAPHOR

• OXYMORON

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5