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English 20-1-2 Match The Literary Device To The Example Provided. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

The snake hissed at me, when I picked it up.
a) alliteration
b) assonance
c) cacophony
d) onomatopoeia

I confess that I did not bend and I set myself up to be better than ever.
a) assonance
b) consonance
c) euphony
d) cacophony

Jerry the giraffe was jealous because giraffe’s can’t jump.
a) onomatopoeia
b) alliteration
c) consonance
d) euphony

She crept up to the stacks of gigantic boxes and used her sharp blade to prick and split the top of each.
a) alliteration
b) cacophony
c) onomatopoeia
d) euphony

While she was washing his bowl, the fish was swishing around in a dish, wishing to be back in his ship-shaped fish home.
a) alliteration
b) consonance
c) cacophony
d) onomatopoeia

I hold her as I calmly wander through the house, then lay her down to dream.
a) alliteration
b) assonance
c) euphony
d) onomatopeia

Her smile lights up the room like a ray of sun.
a) allusion
b) simile
c) personification
d) connotation

I’ve asked you to take out the trash a million times, and it’s still sitting there!
a) denotation
b) euphenism
c) hyperbole
d) conceit

I noticed her irregular pattern of behavior.
a) oxymoron
b) synecdoche
c) paradox
d) verbal irony/sarcasm

You shouldn’t go into the water, until you know how to swim.
a) apostrophe
b) chremamorphism
c) hyperbole
d) paradox

Monkey: a small to medium-sized primate that typically has a long tail.
a) denotation
b) connotation
c) euphenism
d) allusion

Opportunity doesn’t knock at your door every day, so be sure to answer.
a) allusion
b) apostrophe
c) personification
d) simile

She was the office Mocking-jay, leading their charge towards the capital.
a) apostrophe
b) allusion
c) verbal irony/sarcasm
d) metonymy

She is a full-figured lady, so I order her an extra large t-shirt.
a) euphenism
b) metonymy
c) synecdoche
d) paradox

A rich man is no richer than a poor man.
a) chremamorphism
b) apostrophe
c) paradox
d) allusion

It’s nice to see a familiar face around here.
a) allusion
b) personification
c) simile
d) synecdoche

He strutted in, thinking he was Taylor Lautner.
a) allusion
b) metaphor
c) simile
d) oxymoron

But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
a) metaphor
b) conceit
c) chremamorphism
d) hyperbole

“I would rather be called slender than scrawny.”
a) denotation
b) connotation
c) conceit
d) metonymy

Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel.
a) personification
b) paradox
c) euphenism
d) allusion

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