"A hard-boiled egg in the morning is really hard to beat" is an example of __________.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Punning

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.8.5A

"Life is a roller coaster" is an example of ___________.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"I could sleep forever" is an example of ___________.

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"I ran like the wind" is an example of _________.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"She sells seashells by the seashore" is an example of ___________.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky" is an example of ___________.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The golden rays of the setting sun reflected upon the lake" is an example of __________.

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"The pilot has a fear of heights" is an example of ________.

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Irony

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which of the literary devices below correspond to the following definition: A narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Foreshadowing

• Symbolism

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

"She's the Einstein of our generation" is an example of _________.

• Allusion

• Paradox

• Simile

• Pathetic fallacy

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4