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3. My love is like a red, red rose.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 1

4. Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 2

5. Snow speaks to the people; it’s falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 3

6. The baby was as snug as a bug in a rug.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 4

7. In the film and book Charlotte’s Web, Charlotte explains to Wilbur that all living things eventually die. Charlotte then has to spin a web to save Wilbur’s life. In the process of spinning her web, Charlotte expends all her energy and dies.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 5

8. You break a date with your girlfriend so you can go to the ball game with the guys. When you go to the concession stand, you run into your girl, who is with another guy.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 6

9. In Lemony Snicket, most of the inhabitants of the island on which the Baudelaires find themselves in The End are characters from The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 7

10. Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Joe’s boots broke the forest’s silence. A full moon peeked out from behind two clouds. Tree shadows illuminated the snow drifts in its shimmering light. Joe shivered as a cold gust of wind blew through his jacket.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 8

11. “But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.” -W ILLIAM S HARP  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 9

12. A woman is going to break up with her boyfriend; meanwhile, he’s buying her a diamond ring and planning his marriage proposal.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 10

13. A N EMERALD IS AS GREEN AS GRASS, A RUBY RED AS BLOOD ; A SAPPHIRE SHINES AS BLUE AS HEAVEN ; A FLINT LIES IN THE MUD.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 11

14. T HIS QUIZ IS A PIECE OF CAKE.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 12

15. Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe. - J OHN M ILTON  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 13

16. Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 14

17. F OG T HE FOG COMES ON LITTLE CAT FEET. I T SITS LOOKING OVER HARBOR AND CITY ON SILENT HAUNCHES AND THEN MOVES ON.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 15

18. While camping, a person is talking about how there are no bears in the area. Meanwhile, a bear is standing right behind him.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 16

19. When the woman kept changing the subject I knew she had something to hide. I wasn’t surprised when she turned out to be guilty.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 17

20. “Only the daisy trees were serene… they ignored the men and continued to rock the diamondbacks that slept in their arms. It took the river to persuade them that indeed the world was altered.” (T ONI M ORRISON, T AR B ABY )  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 18

21. I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell of silage, as well as the sour dirty laundry spilling over the basket in the hall. I could pick out the acrid smell of Claire’s drenched diaper, her sweaty feet, and her hair crusted with sand.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 19

22. The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.  Answer Choices: A. Allusion B. Simile C. Metaphor D. Personification E. Imagery F. Foreshadowing G. Irony 20

23. A NSWERS  1. Simile2. Metaphor3. Personification  4. Simile5. Foreshadowing (and Irony)  6. Irony7. Allusion8. Imagery  9. Metaphor10. Irony11. Simile  12. Metaphor13. Personification  14. Allusion15. Personification  16. Irony17. Foreshadowing  18. Personification19. Imagery  20. Personification