What literary device is being used in this example:
"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor."
Figurative Language in Literature
Quiz
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English
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8th Grade
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Hard
Sarah Williams
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What literary device is being used in this example:
"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor."
simile
metaphor
oxymoron
hyperbole
Answer explanation
The moon is being compared to a galleon (ship), and the road is compared to a ribbon of moonlight, without using "like" or "as"
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What literary device is being used in this example:
"Like burnt out torches by a sick man's bed,
gaunt cypress trees stand 'round."
simile
metaphor
anthropomorphism
allusion
Answer explanation
The cypress trees are being compared to torches using "like."
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What literary device is being used in this example:
"The leaves are little yellow fish
swimming in the river."
metaphor
Simile
allusion
hyperbole
Answer explanation
The leaves are being compared to fish without using "like" or "as."
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What literary device is being used in this example:
"They only know our love was brief,
And passing like an autumn leaf."
metaphor
oxymoron
hyperbole
simile
Answer explanation
Their love is being compared to an autumn leaf using "like."
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Symbol or metaphor?
"I am of one element, Levity my matter, Like enough a withered leaf / For the winds to scatter."
symbol
metaphor
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 10 pts
What is being personified?
"Time crawled when Bella was doing her homework."
Bella.
Homework.
Crawled.
Time.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Grand Calloway Station got its name from so many people coming and going at all hours of the night, just like Grand Central Station. This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Onomatopoeia
hyperbole
personification
alliteration
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