Literary Devices [Examples from MDG]

Question 1

“The old charts call it ‘Ship Trap Island’ Whitney replied. A suggestive name, isn’t it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don’t know why. Some superstition-“ (Connell 19).

Answer 1

Foreshadowing

Question 2

“The sea was as flat as a plate glass window”(Connell 20).

Answer 2

Simile

Question 3

“But the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face” (Connell 21).

Answer 3

Personification

Question 4

“The sound of muttering and growling of the sea breaking on the rocky shore” (Connell 21).

Answer 4

Personification

Question 5

“The door opened then, opened as suddenly as if it were on a spring.” (Connell 23)

Answer 5

Simile

Question 6

” “You’ve good eyes,” said Whitney, with a laugh,” and I’ve seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred yards, but even you can’t see four miles or so through a moonless Caribbean night.” (Connell 19).

Answer 6

Imagery establishing Mood

Question 7

“And the night breeze brought him to the smell of the Generals cigarette.” (Connell 34)

Answer 7

Imagery

Question 8

“But the mud sucked onto his foot as if it were a giant leech.” (Connell 33)

Answer 8

Simile

Question 9

“Giant rocks with rasor sharp edges crouch like a sea monster with wide open jaws.” (Connell 28)

Answer 9

Personification(rocks “crouch”)
Hyperbole(exaggerating the sharpness of the rocks)
Simile (rocks “like” monster with jaws)

Question 10

-not a quote- When Zaroff wants to hunt Rainsford, But Zaroff ends up being the hunted.

Answer 10

Situational Irony