PART 1: MULTIPLE CHOICES

1. These walls have ears. This sentence is an

example of a/an

A. cliche
B. personification
C. metaphor
D. hyperbole
2. His room was a junk pile. This sentence is
an example of a/an:

A. simile
B. personification
C. metaphor
D. alliteration
3. The baby's skin was like a rose petal. This
sentence is an example of a/an:

A. simile
B. personification
C. metaphor
D. oxymoron
4. The leaves danced in the wind. This
sentence is an example of a/an:

A. simile
B. metaphor
C. personification
D. hyperbole
5. I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse. This
sentence is an example of a/an:

A. simile
B. hyperbole
C. oxymoron
D. personification
6. She played beautifully on the baby grand.
This sentence is an example of a/an:

A. alliteration
B. hyperbole
C. personification
D. oxymoron
7. He was running around like a chicken with it’s
head cut off. This sentence is an example of a/an:

A. metaphor
B. oxymoron
C. hyperbole
D. idiom
8. Rain races, ripping and restless in it’s rage. This
sentence is an example of a/an:

A. alliteration
B. hyperbole
C. personification
D. oxymoron
9. The daffodils nodded their yellow heads at the
walkers. This sentence is an example of a/an:

A. alliteration
B. personification
C. hyperbole
D. oxymoron
10. Your answers are perfectly wrong. This
sentence is an example of a/an:

A. alliteration
B. hyperbole
C. personification
D. oxymoron
11. He had an ace up his sleeve. This
sentence is an example of a/an:

A. alliteration
B. hyperbole
C. Idiom
D. oxymoron
12. When the gates were opened, the mob surged
forward like a burst dam. This sentence is an
example of a/an:

A. simile
B. metaphor
C. personification
D. hyperbole
13. It’s a really dull day when we don’t go to
the mall . This sentence is an example of a/an:

A. alliteration
B. personification
C. hyperbole
D. oxymoron
14. I tried a thousand times to text her and get the
answers to the test.
This sentence is an example of a/an:

A. simile
B. oxymoron
C. personification
D. hyperbole
15. This cartoon is an example of a/an:

A. metaphor
B. simile
C. hyperbole
D. idiom
PART 2: IDENTIFICATION
1. ________– when words or actions
of a character do not have as
significant a meaning to the speaker
as they do to the audience or other
actors because they know something
he does not. (Ex: King Duncan in
Macbeth, as he nears Macbeth’s
castle after a long day’s travel refers
to it as a “pleasant seat”, but the
audience knows that Macbeth and
Lady Macbeth have been planning
Duncan’s murder in this castle that
night.)
2. _______ – the repetition of
consonants at the beginning of words.

Betty Bother bought some butter.

But, she said, the butter’s bitter.
If I put it in my batter
3. _______ – words that imitate
the sound they mean. (Ex: The
water in the river babbled and
gurgled.
4. _______ – a play on words made in
such a way that a word can be used
two different ways, or two words can
sound the same but have two
different meanings.

As he’s dying, he says, “Ask for me to-

morrow, and you shall find me a grave
man.”
5. ______ – writing that is so
descriptive that pictures or images are
vividly created.

Ex: I cannot remember a more

cheerful sight than the first steamboat
with its high plume of white smoke
and its yellow stack.
6. _____ – An indirect or passing
reference to some event, person,
place, or artistic work.

Mythical – “Alcohol proved to be his

Achilles’ heel.”
7. _______ – a figure of speech,
frequently mild or roundabout, which
seeks to disguise something harsh or
unpleasant by giving it an inoffensive
name.
- death - passed away
8. _______ – a figure of speech in
which two adjectives or and adjective
and a noun are seemingly
contradictory.

Ex: “I indeed felt sorry for the poor

little rich girl.
9. ______ – the opposite of
exaggeration.

(Ex: This pie is almost good enough to

eat. Not half bad!)
10. ______ – a literary technique in
which opposite or strongly contrasting
statements are balanced against each
other for emphasis.

(Ex: Man proposes, God disposes. His

body is active, but his mind is
sluggish.)
11. _________ – The repetition of
identical or similar vowel sounds
in the stressed syllables.

Ex:
And round about the keel with faces
pale,
Dark faces pale against that rosy
flame,
The mild-eyed melancholy Lotus-
eaters came.
12. _______ – A type of metaphor in
which human qualities or attributes
are given to non-human things such
as animals, inanimate objects or
abstract ideas.

The candle cries.

13. _________ – A type of
personification in which we address
the absent as if it were present or the
non-human as if it were human.

Ex: “O Wild West Wind, thou breath

of Autumn’s being.” (Shelley)
“Shine! Shine! Shine!”
14. __________ – A directly stated
comparison of two unlike objects that
are like each other in one respect.

Ex: His voice was like a chain saw.

15. _____ – (Greek for “name
change.”) A figure of speech in which
the name of one thing is substituted
for that of another which is closely
associated.

Ex: The crown is used to mean the

monarchy.