Literary Devices

Question 1

My flowers were begging for water.

Answer 1

Personification

Hyperbole

Question 2

She climbs like a monkey.

Answer 2

Simile

Question 3

He’s running faster than the wind.

Answer 3

Hyperbole

Question 4

What’s the headcount for next week’s party?

Answer 4

Synecdoche- ‘head’ is being used to signify a whole person

Question 5

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Answer 5

Assonance - repetition of the short e and long i sounds

Question 6

I am so thirsty that my throat is as dry as the Sahara desert.

Answer 6

Simile

Hyperbole

Question 7

The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens.

Answer 7

Metaphor

Question 8

The approaching car’s headlights winked at me.

Answer 8

Personification

Question 9

I heard the door ‘ding-a-ling’ and groaned as I knew exactly who it was.

Answer 9

onomatopoeia - ‘ding-a-ling’

Question 10

From what I’ve tasted of desire

Answer 10

Synaesthesia ‘tasted of desire’

Question 11

His smile is like kryptonite to me.

Answer 11

Kryptonite is an allusion to the Superman movies/comics where, even though he has super powers, kryptonite is his weakness.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Personification

Question 13

He pointed an angry finger at me.

Answer 13

Transferred epithet -the finger isn’t actually angry, it has no feelings.

Question 14

My big brother is a couch potato.

Answer 14

Metaphor

Question 15

“Horsey horsey don’t you stop
Just let your feet go clippetty clop
The tail goes swish and the wheels go round
Giddy up, we’re homeward bound.”

Answer 15

onomatopoeia - ‘clippetty clop’

‘swish’

Question 16

That guy is as nutty as a fruitcake.

Answer 16

Simile

Question 17

She looked at him through concerned eyes

Answer 17

Transferred epithet - eyes cant actually be concerned

Question 18

I was interviewed by Forbes.

Answer 18

Synecdoche- They were actually interviewed by a single interviewers not the whole publication ‘Forbes’

Question 19

The shopping cost me a million dollars.

Answer 19

Hyperbole

Question 20

‘During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country.’

Answer 20

Pathetic fallacy - creating a sullen, depression mood through the weather - ‘dull, dark’, ‘the clouds hung oppressively low’

Question 21

Does it count if we were on a break?

Answer 21

References to the show Friends

Question 22

Back to the region where the sun is silent.

Answer 22

Synaesthesia ‘ silent sun’

Question 23

At five o’clock, the interstate is always a parking lot.

Answer 23

Metaphor

Question 24

A friendly sun shone down brightly on the party guests as they arrived in the garden.

Answer 24

Pathetic fallacy

Question 25

The “boom” of a firework exploding hurt my ears.

Answer 25

onomatopoeia

Question 26

Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind. So furious had been the gusts, that high buildings in town had had the lead stripped off their roofs; and in the country, trees had been torn up, and sails of windmills carried away; and gloomy accounts had come in from the coast, of shipwreck and death.

Answer 26

Pathetic fallacy
Hyperbole

Personification

Question 27

She felt like she had a golden ticket.

Answer 27

Allusion to Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

Question 28

She’s as skinny as a toothpick.

Answer 28

Hyperbole

simile

Question 29

The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.

Answer 29

Assonance - repetition of the long a sound

Question 30

My sister is the devil.

Answer 30

Metaphor

hyperbole

Question 31

He completed his scorching guitar solo.

Answer 31

Synaesthesia - ‘scorching guitar solo’

Question 32

The police were at my neighbor’s house last night

Answer 32

Synecdoche- the whole police weren’t at their neighbors house just a couple

Question 33

The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.

Answer 33

Personification

Question 34

She looked like Venus

Answer 34

Allusion - Venus was the Goddess of Beauty