Exploring Literary Devices in "Wuthering Heights"

What literary device is primarily used in the opening line "1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with."?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The phrase "solitary neighbour" is an example of which literary device?

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metonymy

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The phrase "shall be troubled with" suggests a tone of:

• Excitement

• Indifference

• Foreboding

• Joy

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What literary device is used in the phrase 'a series of curses directed against every object he touched'?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am."

• Irony

• Action

• Imagery

• Point of View

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

"Tell her what Heathcliff is—an unreclaimed creature, without refinement—without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone. I'd as soon put that little canary into the park on a winter's day as recommend you to bestow your heart on him!"

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Setting

• Point of View

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

“Yes, and it worries me, and I must let it out! I want to know what I should do. To-day, Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him, and I’ve given him an answer. Now, before I tell you whether it was a consent or denial, you tell me which it ought to have been.”

• Point of View

• Mood

• Motif

• Symbols

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

"It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn."

• Conflict

• Allusion

• Mood

• Personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"On a mellow evening in September, I was coming from the garden with a heavy basket of apples which I had been gathering. It had got dusk, and the moon looked over the high wall of the court, causing undefined shadows to lurk in the corners of the numerous projecting portions of the building."

• Irony

• Setting

• Simile

• Mood

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, “let me in—let me in!”“Who are you?” I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself.”Catherine Linton,” it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of Linton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times for Linton)—”I’m come home: I’d lost my way on the moor!”

• Foreshadowing

• Imagery

• Personification

• Resolution

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.4