Figurative Language & Rhetoric Review

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English
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10th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
Hyperbole
Simile
Allusion
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
Imagery
Alliteration
Personification
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
Personification
Metaphor
Allusion
Idiom
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
Idiom
Personification
Metaphor
Imagery
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Simile
Imagery
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5
CCSS.L.9-10.5A
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
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