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Which literary device is used in this sentence?
"As blind as a bat."

• Repetition
• Simlie
• Metaphor
• Alliteration

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"If I were young. If I were strong. If I were loved. If I were wrong." The "ifs" are an example of...

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition

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1. There were always clouds in that dingy little valley. It rained. It always rained. This is an example of

• Understatement
• Hyperbole

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What is the synonym for quiet?

• loud
• noisy
• crazy
• silent

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These lines have an example of what literary term? 
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,/
Who is already sick and pale with grief/
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.

• analogy
• pun
• personification

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having qualities or characteristics more often associated with women than men; characterized by weakness and excessive refinement

• Impenetrably

• Superfluous

• Effeminate

• Sheathed

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What is a kenning?

• two word metaphor used in place of a noun
• repetition of beginning consonant sounds
• giving non-human things human characteristics
• an understatement that illustrates the opposite of what it states

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What is a comparison of two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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Mercutio stating, "A plague on both of your houses" is an example of:

• flashback

• climax

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

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Write an example of personification.

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