Literary Technique or Rhetorical Device
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10th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Pain had never been a friend to me before, but now it kept me still. It forced reality on me and kept me sane" (113) is an example of
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
Books, Reading and writing are mentioned frequently throughout the book Kindred. Both central characters, Dana and Kevin, are writers. Dana teaches reading and writing, tries to read books when stuck in the past, and also writes for herself. Writing and reading are liberating acts: they are subtle and not-so-subtle ways to gain and assert power within a society that marginalizes people based on race and/or gender. This type of repetition is called
motif
symbolism
anaphora
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"He accepted the book, looked at it as though it were his enemy" (88) is an example of
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The references made to James Madison, when California joins the U.S.A. and to Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, etc. are examples of
motif
history
analogy
allusion
Tags
CCSS.L.7.5A
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"Why do you go around looking like a zombie all the time?" (53) is an example of
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"I didn't want this place to touch him except through me" (59) is an example of which technique?
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
Using diction and imagery to contrast the act of writing with working at a temporary agency is an example of which technique?
paradox
allusion
juxtaposition
parallelism
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