Semester 2 Final Pre-AP

Which literary device is used when an author gives human characteristics to non-human objects or animals?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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Identify the literary device in the following sentence: "The wind whispered through the trees."

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Irony

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Which literary device involves a direct comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

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In the sentence "The classroom was a zoo," which literary device is being used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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What literary device is used in the phrase "jumbo shrimp"?

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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Which literary device is used to hint at events that will occur later in the story?

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Irony

• Symbolism

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Identify the literary device in the following sentence: "He was so hungry he could eat a horse."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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Which literary device is used when an author refers to another work of literature or historical event?

• Allusion

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Simile

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In the sentence "The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky," which literary device is being used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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What literary device is used in the phrase "deafening silence"?

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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