Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
3. 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
4. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
The baby was as snug as a bug in a rug.
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
5. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
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
6. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
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
7. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
“But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.” -William Sharp
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Irony
8. 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
9. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
This quiz is a piece of cake.
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
10. 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
11. 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
12. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
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
Personifcation
Foreshadowing
13. 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
14. 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
15. Multiple Choice
1.5 minutes
1 pt
The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.