ENG 20 - Poetry Terms (PART 2) Question Preview (ID: 55889)
English 20-1-2
Match The Literary Device To The Example Provided.
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Her life goal was to conquer Hollywood.
a) metonymy
b) oxymoron
c) personification
d) euphenism
My job is stealing my life from me.
a) denotation
b) chremamorphism
c) conceit
d) personification
As he bragged about benching 250lbs, I looked to see if his nose was growing.
a) aprostrophe
b) allusion
c) simile
d) metaphor
She saw it as the beginning of the end.
a) synecdoche
b) paradox
c) metonymy
d) chremamorphism
Feet, don’t fail me now.
a) apostrophe
b) hyperbole
c) conceit
d) connotation
The old man creaked as he stood and crumbled down the hallway.
a) synecdoche
b) paradox
c) chremamorphism
d) personification
My life is like a 3 day old bologna sandwich.
a) oxymoron
b) conceit
c) denotation
d) apostrophe
Don’t worry; I’m sure your homework will do itself.
a) verbal irony / sarcasm
b) hyperbole
c) connotation
d) oxymoron
EXTRA EXAMPLE - Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table
a) conceit
b) synecdoche
c) chremamorphism
d) apostrophe
EXTRA EXAMPLE - all hands on deck
a) synecdoche
b) conceit
c) hyperbole
d) paradox
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