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The world is my oyster.
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) personification
d) oxymoron

It was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) personification
d) hyperbole

The vines wove their delicate fingers together.
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) pun
d) personification

You could have knocked me over with a feather.
a) metaphor
b) personification
c) hyperbole
d) onomatopoeia

Using an owl to represent wisdom.
a) onomatopoeia
b) symbolism
c) hyperbole
d) personification

We're up, wide-eyed, and wondering while we wait for others to awaken.
a) onomatopoeia
b) assonance
c) alliteration
d) consonance

The burning wood hissed and crackled.
a) alliteration
b) symbolism
c) onomatopoeia
d) metaphor

He heard the sound of firel, like wire striking air.
a) assonance
b) consonance
c) alliteration
d) onomatopoeia

He lets the pink ball fall with a tall man.
a) assonance
b) alliteration
c) consonance
d) onomatopoeia

Poised between going on and back, pulled / Both ways taut like a tight-rope walker,
a) metaphor
b) personalification
c) simile
d) hyperbole

Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary;
a) assonance
b) alliteration
c) personification
d) hyperbole

Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.
a) symbolism
b) imagery
c) hyperbole
d) personification

a figure of speech that compares two separate concepts through the use of a clear connecting word such as like or as
a) metaphor
b) simile
c) personification
d) allusion

is like a simile but without connecting words
a) personification
b) hyperbole
c) metaphor
d) allusion

when a text references another external text or a person, place or event
a) alliteration
b) allusion
c) idiom
d) pun

non-literal turns of phrase so common that most people who speak the same language know them
a) pun
b) simile
c) idiom
d) allusion

a play on words; exploits the different meanings or a word or its homonyms
a) idiom
b) allusion
c) pun
d) cliche

words sound like the thing they describe
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) onomatopoeia
d) oxymoron

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