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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
What literary device is the following passage: "Two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon"
simile
personification
anaphora
allusion
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
What 2 literary devices are used in the following passage: "[Daisy's] was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
personification & simile
onomatopoeia & metaphor
parallelism & alliteration
paradox & antithesis
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
What literary device is the following passage: "Her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened — then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret..."
paradox
personification
allusion
onomatopoeia
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
What literary device is the following passage: "[Jordan's] family is one aunt about a thousand years old."
hyperbole
alliteration
simile
situational irony
Answer explanation
They're exaggerating how old she is--she's not literally a thousand.
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
5.
FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Nick saying that he would pretend to have a "hostile levity" is a (a) because "hostile" means aggressive/angry, while "levity" is light, airy cheerfulness, so it seems like the two concepts are conflicting & can't go together.
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.2.6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
How would Nick characterize himself?
(Hint: think about the meaning of the word characterize)
smart & well educated
handsome, though poor
non-judgmental, understanding
selective, choosy about whom he surrounds himself with
Answer explanation
characterization is describing someone's personality, the thing that makes them who they are deep down.
It's NOT appearance or education level or socioeconomic status.
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
7.
MATCH QUESTION
5 mins • 2 pts
Match the following vocab terms to their translations
(from wk 15 Great Gatsby Old Text Translation Warm Ups)
light cheerfulness
levity
not looked for
feigned
pretended
on the horizon
around the corner
unsought
a thing that happens
phenomenon
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
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