Examples

Question 1

Mike made mellow music with his microphone

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

He is as strong as an ox

Answer 2

Idiom

Question 3

The snow is a white blanket

Answer 3

Metaphor

Question 4

The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth.

Answer 4

Imagery- taste

Question 5

My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

Answer 5

Personification

Question 6

My dad will kill me when he comes home.

Answer 6

Hyperbole

Question 7

A pilot has a fear of heights.

Answer 7

Irony

Question 8

Bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape

Answer 8

Imagery- visual

Question 9

It is not unusual for a dog to bark when visitors arrive.

Answer 9

Onomatopoeia

Question 10

Oh, woeful, oh woeful, woeful, woeful day!

Answer 10

Repetition

Question 11

And then he said…

Answer 11

Ellipsis

Question 12

Hear the mellow wedding bells

Answer 12

Assonance

Question 13

I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.

Answer 13

Assonance

Question 14

The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,
Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling

Answer 14

Dissonance

Question 15

Act naturally.

Answer 15

Oxymoron

Question 16

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

Answer 16

Juxtaposition

Question 17

The defenseless victims were attacked in the cover of night.

Answer 17

Emotive language

Question 18

Tolstoy was a great pacifist and was once lecturing on the need to be nonresistant and nonviolent towards all creatures. Someone in the audience responded by asking what should be done if one was attacked in the woods by a tiger. Tolstoy responded, “Do the best you can. It doesn’t happen very often.”

Answer 18

Anecdote

Question 19

The ballerina was a swan, gliding across the stage.

Answer 19

Metaphor

Question 20

You are my sunshine.

Answer 20

Metaphor

Question 21

This dress is perfect because it fits like a glove.

Answer 21

Simile

Question 22

I am so thirsty that my throat is as dry as a bone.

Answer 22

Simile

Question 23

As I tumbled down the hill, the loose rocks raced alongside me, pricking my hands and face like a hundred tiny knives.

Answer 23

Imagery- tactile

Question 24

The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward

Answer 24

Imagery- sound

Question 25

The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen; the clouds were edged with pink and gold.

Answer 25

Imagery- visual

Question 26

Lenin was cruel, which Gladstone was not; Lenin had no respect for tradition, whereas Gladstone had a great deal; Lenin considered all means legitimate for securing the victory of his party, whereas for Gladstone politics was a game with certain rules that must be observed.

Answer 26

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