BECE Literary Devices in Prose 2

Question 1

"Her voice was as smooth as honey flowing over warm bread." Which literary device is used?

Accepted Answer

Simile

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Metaphor

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Personification

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Hyperbole

Question 2

"The trees whispered secrets to the wind as night fell." What literary device is illustrated?

Accepted Answer

Personification

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Alliteration

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Hyperbole

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Onomatopoeia

Question 3

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Which device does this illustrate?

Accepted Answer

Alliteration

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Assonance

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Rhyme

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Consonance

Question 4

Which of the following words is the best example of onomatopoeia?

Accepted Answer

Sizzle

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Beautiful

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Enormous

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Quickly

Question 5

"I have told you a million times to clean your room!" This sentence contains which device?

Accepted Answer

Hyperbole

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Simile

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Metaphor

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Irony

Question 6

A student fails an exam and says, "Well, that went perfectly!" This is an example of:

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Verbal irony

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Dramatic irony

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Situational irony

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Cosmic irony

Question 7

A narrator interrupts the current story to describe an event from the character's childhood. This technique is called:

Accepted Answer

Flashback

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Foreshadowing

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Flash-forward

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Exposition