Practicing Similes and Metaphors

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Literary Techniques Review
Interactive Quiz created by Nancy Roberts Garrity
at St. John Fisher School
NOTE In order to play this game, it must be
viewed in slide show (F5)
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DIRECTIONS
Directions Read the example on each slide. Then
click on the button that identifies the type of
literary technique.
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Three times Della counted it.
inversion
inference
imagery
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Mr. James Dillingham Young
The letters of Dillingham looked blurred, as
though they were thinking seriously of
contracting to a modest and unassuming D.
inference
imagery
personification
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She stood by the window and looked out dully at a
gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.
inversion
personification
repetition
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In The Gift of the Magi, the narrator refers to
Dellas hair as a brown cascade.
synecdoche
metonymy
personification
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TERRIFIC
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The next two hours tripped by on rosy wings.
personification
hyperbole
paradox
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Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a
setter at the scent of quail.
simile
metaphor
personification
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Jim had an expression on his face that Della
could not read It was not anger, nor
surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of
the sentiments that she had been prepared for.
inversion
irony
repetition
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Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake.
inversion
inference
imagery
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White fingers and nimble tore the string and
paper.
personification
synecdoche
metonymy
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Della leaped up like a little singed cat.
metaphor
paradox
simile
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In the conclusion, the narrator describes Della
and Jim as two foolish children yet he appears
to contradict himself by saying that they were
the wisest of all who give gifts.
paradox
oxymoron
understatement
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At the end of the story, the reader is surprised
because the events are contrary to what one might
expect. What is this called?
verbal irony
irony of the situation
dramatic irony
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