Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
2. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
Snow speaks to the people; it’s falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air.
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
3. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
The baby was as snug as a bug in a rug.
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
4. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
In the film and book Charlotte’s Web, Charlotte explains to Wilbur that all living things eventually die. Charlotte then has to spin a web to save Wilbur’s life. In the process of spinning her web, Charlotte expends all her energy and dies.
Allusion & Imagery
Simile & Metaphor
Foreshadowing & Irony
Personification & Mood
5. Multiple Choice
45 seconds
1 pt
You break a date with your girlfriend so you can go to the ball game with the guys. When you go to the concession stand, you run into your girl, who is with another guy.
Personification
Imagery
Foreshadowing
Irony
6. Multiple Choice
45 seconds
1 pt
In Lemony Snicket, most of the inhabitants of the island on which the Baudelaires find themselves in The End are characters from The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Imagery
7. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Joe’s boots broke the forest’s silence. A full moon peeked out from behind two clouds. Tree shadows illuminated the snow drifts in its shimmering light. Joe shivered as a cold gust of wind blew through his jacket.
Simile
Metaphor
Imagery
Irony
8. Multiple Choice
45 seconds
1 pt
“But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.” -William Sharp
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Irony
9. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
A woman is going to break up with her boyfriend; meanwhile, he’s buying her a diamond ring and planning his marriage proposal.
Allusion
Metaphor
Personification
Irony
10. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud.
Allusion
Simile
Personification
Foreshadowing
11. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
This quiz is a piece of cake.
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
12. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe. - John Milton
Simile
Foreshadowing
Personification
Allusion
13. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities.
Allusion
Simile
Imagery
Metaphor
14. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Fog The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
15. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
While camping, a person is talking about how there are no bears in the area. Meanwhile, a bear is standing right behind him.
Allusion
Imagery
Irony
Personfication
16. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
When the woman kept changing the subject I knew she had something to hide. I wasn’t surprised when she turned out to be guilty.
Foreshadowing
Personfication
Simile
Metaphor
17. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
“Only the daisy trees were serene… they ignored the men and continued to rock the diamondbacks that slept in their arms. It took the river to persuade them that indeed the world was altered.”
Allusion
Simile
Irony
Personification
18. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell of silage, as well as the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall. I could pick out the acrid smell of Claire’s drenched diaper, her sweaty feet, and her hair crusted with sand.
Imagery
Allusion
Personification
Irony
19. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.