Eng literary devices

"Purple puppies like playing on the playground." This is an example of:

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• oxymoron

"Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again ..." (Paul Simon, The Sounds of Silence)

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

I have tons and tons of jobs to do tonight. ( Identify literary device)

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  Onomatopoeia

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  Imagery

• Hyperbole

Choose the statement below that best represents an example of imagery.

• The dog ran down the road.

• The shaggy dog trotted briskly down the dirt-covered road.

• The dog ran down the road and walked down the sidewalk.

I am as angry as a bull at the rodeo. This sentence is an example of _________________.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

The teacher is like an angry lion when she is mad.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Cra-aack! Whump! The beam broke and fell on them.

• personification

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  Onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

You are clearly confused by the situation you have found yourself in. ( identify literary device)

• personification

• hyperbole

• Oxymorons

The starry night sky looked so beautiful that it begged him to linger, but he reluctantly left for home.

• imagery

• personification

• metaphor

Which one of the statements is not personification.

• My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

• The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.

• The snow is a white blanket.