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The fire that Jack sets to smoke out Ralph leads, instead, to Ralph's rescue. This is an example of:

• Foreshadowing
• Irony
• Metaphor
• Natural consequences

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Which word has the more positive connotation?

• Bean-pole
• Slender 

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'That test was a breeze!' is an example of:

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• idiom

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Madame Schachter's claims that she sees flames from the cattle car are an example of what literary device?

• Simile
• Forecasting
• Foreshadowing
• Imagery

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Hyperbole

• A hyperactive word
• An outrageous exaggeration of a word
• A contradictory statement
• An indirect comparison of two like items

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"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil, prophet still, if bird or devil!" is an example of . . .

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole

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Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.
• The trees danced in the wind.
• I waited in line for 10 years!
• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

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"Water is cheaper than diamonds, yet humans need water, not diamonds, to survive."

• hyperbole
• paradox
• allusion 
• simile

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What type of figurative language is the following sentence?
"The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its hard skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, the nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air." 

• simile
• metaphor 
• alliteration
• hyperbole

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Which of the following literary devices is presented here?

"He lived a year in a minute."

• imagery

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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