Literary Strategies

"The sun was like a large ball of butter" is an example of what literary technique?

• personification

• paradox

• oxymoron

• simile

"The wall stared at me silently" is an example of what type of literary tool?

• personification

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

"If I do not eat my daily papaya, I will surely die" is an example of what type of literary device?

• simile

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• imagery

"The road was a ribbon of moonlight, "is an example of which of these literary techniques?

• oxymoron

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Metaphor

"The wise fool is burnig my taco" employs what kind of literary device?

• metaphor

• inference

• oxymoron

• simile

"Flaming ice" is an example of what literary technique?

• simile

• oxymoron

• verbal irony

• metaphor

"My mother always told me never to get close to any danger, as that would be dancing with the devil. Little did I know that in my professional ballroom dancing career, that is exactly what I would do." What literary device is used here through the whole example?

• foreshadow

• simile

• paradox

• irony

When a word’s vocalization imitates a natural sound, as can be heard in the words murmur,buzz, and pop, what do we call that device

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Which of these pairs is not a pair of opposites?

• Connotation and denotation

• Euphony and cacaphony

• simile and metaphor

• inference and irony

A feeling of curiosity or uncertainty abou the outcome of events in a literary work.

• imagery

• conflict

• dialect

• suspense