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Which literary device is used in this sentence?
 "She is fishing in trouble water."

• Simile 
• Personification
• Metaphor
• N/A

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Which of the following is an example of situational irony?

• The cat ran away from the dog.
• She told everyone what a beautiful day it was.
• A vampire has a cross in his house.
• Penny is beautiful.

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"After he ate the chocolate chip cookies, guilt poked and chewed at Anthony."
What human characteristic is being given?

• Eating
• Baking
• Chewing
• Making people guilty

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What figurative language is the sentence below?
She is as pretty as a flower. 

• Simile 
• Metaphor 
• Alliteration 

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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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Which literary device does Fitzgerald use when Jordan tells Nick about Daisy?

• Allusion
• Flashback 
• Foreshadowing 
• Idiom 

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What does the valley of ashes represent on a symbolic level?

• It represents death and morbidity. The color gray symbolizes depression. 
• It's basically a wasteland. The Wilsons' garage is here and this is where the sinful Myrtle lives. 
• It symbolizes negative thinking and all the bad things that have gone on in the town.
• It has no symbolic representation, it's just a name.

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I am the sun
I am the moon
I am the light
I am the dark
is an example of

• simile
• repetition
• personification

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Allusion is defined as______

• Two lines working as a unit
• A reference to a famous  person, place, or event
• A form of wordplay with similar sounding sounds
• Words that involve one of the five senses

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A hungry cook

• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• situational irony
• none of the above

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