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What are the “eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg”?

• Seeing eye dogs that the doctor trains fro the Association of the Blind
• A group of security guards who monitor the doctor’s home and offices
• A new kind of contact lens that the doctor has just developed
• An illustration on a billboard overlooking the valley of ashes

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What type of imagery is this?
The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house

• Sight
• Sound
• Touch 
• Taste

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Imagery is language that creates a picture.

• True
• False

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You look ________. What happened?

• Terrified

• Terrifying

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Diction refers to...

• An author's style
• An author's choice of words and syntax
• An author's tone
• An author's perspective

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giving human traits to non-living things

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• anaphora

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It was the sea eagle that called Emily down to the beach. It hovered above the waves, it's broad wings dusty where the land had left its mark, its small eyes that could follow the horizon bright and keen.
She hadn't meant to come down onto the beach. She'd meant to sit at the top of the ramp till the other kids had left the street, till she could walk home from school in peace, without strangers staring at her. but somehow the bird seemed to urge her to come down. 
How do you think Emily feels? 

• happy
• sympathetic 
• cheerful
• unhappy

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The person in the corner continued to ___________ incoherent thoughts throughout the terrifying experience. 

• murmur
• eager
• scold
• grimly 

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After the young pipel is hung, Elie says the soup tastes

• Good

• Like corpses

• Like fresh potatoes

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The free bird demonstrates freedom and power when it

• stalks down its narrow cage

• sings with a fearful trill

• shouts on a nightmare scream

• claims the sky

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