OCS English III Module 4 Review

Which type of figurative language is used in the following?

Her eyes are twinkling stars.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

Which type of figurative language is used in the following sentence? The sun grinned down on the laughing flowers.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

Emily ___ was America's first major female poet.

• Blunt

• Matthews

• Adams

• Dickinson

After Emily Dickinson’s death, her sister discovered ______ poems that were published over the next 70 years.

• 800

• 1,800

• 8,800

• 88,000

Whenever you listen to a __________, you are hearing poetry.

• song

• talk show

• friend

• bird

A _________ compares two unlike things using the connecting words like, as, or than.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• imagery

A _________ compares two unlike things without using connecting words.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• imagery

_________ gives human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• imagery

_________ describes things, events, or ideas using words related to our five senses.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• imagery

___________ devices are strategies used to help people remember something.

• recording

• mnemonic

• poetic

• literary