literary devices in stargirl quiz

"Her eyes were the biggest I had ever seen, like deer's eyes caught in the headlight."

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Anaphora

"When a Stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light."

• Polysyndeton

• Epistrophe

• Personification

• Metaphor

"A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did."

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

"The waving arm was green from the elbow up; all else was brown, dead."

• Oxymoron

• Tricolon

• Personification

• Metaphor

She was sniffing fumes.

She was homeschooling amok.

she was an alien.

• Allsuion

• Tricolon

• Anaphora

• personification

"She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

• Simile

• Allusion

"She sat with her, ate with her, talked with her, walked out with her"

• Simile

• Epistrophe

• Symbolism

• Tricolon

"She laughed and danced and talked and ran and skipped and jumped."

• Asyndeton

• Epistrophe

• Polysyndeton

• Anaphora

She did not carry a lunch tray. She did carry a large bag with a life-size sunflower painted on it.

• Polysyndeton

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Tricolon

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

• Asyndeton

• polysyndeton

• Tricolon

• Anaphora