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Figurative Language & Rhetoric Review

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 13mins

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Class
Date
1.

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the 16th century."

-Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Allusion

d)

Metaphor

2.

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to

dream before”

- "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe

a)

Imagery

b)

Alliteration

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

3.

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation

is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.

Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere.”

-Walden, Henry David Thoreau

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Allusion

d)

Idiom

4.

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.”

-A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

a)

Idiom

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

d)

Imagery

5.

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;

Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”

-“To Autumn,” John Keats

a)

Alliteration

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Simile

d)

Imagery

6.

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast

of the mind.”

-Sand and Foam, Khalil Gibran

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

7.

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells—

From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.”

-“The Bells,” Edgar Allan Poe

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Imagery

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

8.

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

“Because I could not stop for Death –

He kindly stopped for me –

The Carriage held but just Ourselves –

And Immortality.”

- “Because I could not stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Personification

c)

Allusion

d)

Simile

9.

What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below?

  “In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug

laid for the feet of the coming sun . . .”

- “The Red Badge of Courage,” Stephen Crane

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Alliteration

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

10.

Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?

A text written to encourage support for the protection of the Florida panther features an interview with a renowned biologist who is an expert on endangered species.

a)

Ethos

b)

Kairos

c)

Logos

d)

Pathos

11.

Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?

A text written to evoke haste in responding to the declining Florida panther population discusses the implication of panther mortality rates.

a)

Ethos

b)

Kairos

c)

Logos

d)

Pathos

12.

Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?

A text incorporates sound reasoning supported by the citation of relevant statistics in order to attract monetary support for legislation proposed to protect endangered species.

a)

Ethos

b)

Kairos

c)

Logos

d)

Pathos

13.

Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?

A text includes the use of vivid, emotive language, intended to incite intense feeling in a reader regarding the destruction of the Florida panther’s natural habitat.

a)

Ethos

b)

Kairos

c)

Logos

d)

Pathos