ENG 20 - Poetry Terms (PART 2) Question Preview (ID: 55889)


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

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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