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What type of figurative language is shown?
The ocean waves danced in the moonlight.

• personification
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron

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"The  Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands
Ring'd with the azure world he stands
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Choose the literary device that is NOT used in this poem.

• Sight Details
• Touch Details
• Hearing Details
• Personification

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Giving human characteristics to non-human things is:

• simile
• metaphor
• personification

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Rachel compares "growing old" to

• Everyday is just like yesterday.
• a tin Band-Aid box
• a red sweater
• rings inside a tree trunk

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She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.

• refrain
• personification
• repetition
• metaphor

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Is this a pun?

• True
• False

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Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.

The sound of your breath is music of which I will not tire.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

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“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

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It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. This quote uses ________.

• hyperbole

• assonance

• alliteration

• juxtaposition

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I have ............................... free days to relax.

• any

• a few

• a little

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