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- 1. Multiple-choice1 minute1 pt
Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.
We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life, a thousand times faith. (pg. 41)
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
alliteration
- 2. Multiple-choice1 minute1 pt
Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.
The dentist, a Jew from Czechoslovakia, had a face not unlike a death mask. (pg. 51)
personification
hyperbole
pun
simile
- 3. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 pt
Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.
One day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest… (Pg. 53)
irony
analogy
simile
metaphor
- 4. Multiple-choice1 minute1 pt
Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.
At first, my father simply doubled over under the blows, but then he seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning. (Pg. 54)
simile
pun
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
- 5. Multiple-choice1 minute1 pt
Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.
"You filthy swine." (Wiesel 29)
metaphor
personification
simile
allusion
- 6. Multiple-choice30 seconds1 pt
Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.
Hundreds of eyes were looking at them, shining with desire. Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in wait for them. Two lambs without a shepherd, free for the taking. (Pg. 59)
irony
personification
metaphor
hyperbole
- 7. Multiple-choice1 minute1 pt
Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.
The raid lasted more than one hour. If only it could have gone on for ten times ten hours… (pg. 60)
analogy
allusion
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
- 8. Multiple-choice1 minute1 pt
Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.
That night, the soup tasted of corpses. (Pg. 65
metaphor
simile
personification
irony
- 9. Multiple-choice1 minute1 pt
Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.
No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes" (21)
metaphor
allusion
imagery
personification
- 10. Multiple-choice1 minute1 pt
Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence.
The dentist, a Jew from Czechoslovakia... When he opened his mouth, one had a ghastly vision of yellow, rotten teeth. (51)
hyperbole
personification
analogy
irony
