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The following is an example of what literary device?
"The three empty walls of the room were like the pale brows of sleeping giants now, empty of dreams."

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

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That hotel room was so small that even the mice had hunched
shoulders.

• Understatement
• Hyperbole
• Litotes
• Antithesis

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What is being personified:
During the night, the rain yelled at us.

• night
• rain

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Identify the simile

• I like apples.
• Apples taste sweet.
• You're the apple of my eye.
• This apple is as sweet as candy.

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What literary device is being used? "It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!"

• Personification
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

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Kozmy is so big he could break a tower!

• Hyperbole
• Hyperbolie
• Hyperbale
• Hyperboly

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Which of the following is not an oxymoron?

• bittersweet

• civil war

• under the weather

• pretty ugly

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The alarm clocked mocked me as it blared in my ear.

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

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When Mercutio says, "A plague on both of your houses," he has just been

• stabbed by Tybalt and is about to die.

• informed of the wedding.

• banished for fighting.

• sentenced to death by the prince.

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What does it mean to read "allegorically"?

• Read an allegory

• Take the words of the story to mean exactly and only what they say

• Take the words of a story as a hidden message for something else

• Read quickly

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