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A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

• A. Understatement 
• B. D. Simile 
• C. Oxymoron

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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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In quiet sleep she sealed his cherished eyes.

• Simile
• Imagery
• Personification
• Alliteration

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A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself is a ______.

• Tone
• Poem
• Metaphor
• Symbol

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Wiesel writes, Monday passed like a small summer cloud, like a dream in the first daylight hours."  What is the purpose of this simile?

• To demonstrate the fear that the Jews felt
• To help the reader get a better visual of the sky
• To show that time passed quickly
• None of the above

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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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The following is an example of which rhetorical device?
The fog crept through doorways and keyholes.

• Irony
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

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A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect

• Hyperbole
• Anecdote
• Allegory
• Conceit

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The idiom, "Its raining cats and dogs" means..

• Its actually raining cats and dogs outside
• It is raining 
• Its raining really hard outside
• The weather is perfect

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"Christ is one of the 'family' now. He's a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine, making veiled references to certain commercial products." The comparison in red is an example of _____.

• metaphor
• simile
• allusion
• personification

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