This interactive slideshow reviews literary devices, tests the viewer's knowledge of devices through a quiz, and applies device knowledge to passages from class texts. It begins with definitions of simile, metaphor, personification, and analogy, followed by a multiple choice quiz matching examples to the correct devices. The slideshow ends by identifying devices like metaphor and personification in passages from Romeo and Juliet and allusion/foreshadowing in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

1. Miss Boyles
Senior AP
English
April 3, 2011
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2. This interactive slideshow will review what
you’ve learned about literary devices, test your
knowledge of them in general, and apply that
knowledge to passages from the main texts
we’ve read in class…
AND AWAY WE GO!!!
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Click this arrow for an interactive quiz over literary devices
Click this arrow for questions regarding literary devices in our
main texts

3. A simile is a figure of speech
comparing two unlike things,
often introduced with the words
"like" or "as"
That actor
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4. A figure of speech in which an
implied comparison is made
between two unlike things that
actually have something in
common
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5. A comparison between two
things that are similar in some
way, often used to help explain
something or make it easier to
understand
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6. Giving human qualities to
animals or objects
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7. Hints of what is to come in the
action of a play or story
Foreshadowing can be, in fact, a form of
'backwriting.' The writer goes back
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8. Click on the literary device that corresponds to the example. The correct answer will turn red.
The rush he got from skydiving was the same as
the rush Amanda got from winning the spelling
bee.
A) Metaphor
B) Analogy
C) Personification
D) Simile
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9. Click on the literary device that corresponds to the example. The correct answer will turn red.
The river swallowed the earth as the water
continued to rise higher and higher.
A) Metaphor
B) Analogy
C) Personification
D) Simile
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10. Click on the literary device that corresponds to the example. The correct answer will turn red.
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the
gusty trees.
A) Metaphor
B) Analogy
C) Personification
D) Simile
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11. Click on the literary device that corresponds to the example. The correct answer will turn red.
So are you to my thoughts as food to life.
A) Metaphor
B) Analogy
C) Personification
D) Simile
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12. Click on the literary device that corresponds to the example. The correct answer will turn red.
It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working
like a dog.
A) Metaphor
B) Analogy
C) Personification
D) Simile
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13. Click on the literary device that corresponds to the example. The correct answer will turn red.
America’s treatment of slaves before the Civil War
was in some ways similar to Germany’s treatment
of Jewish people during WWII.
A) Metaphor
B) Analogy
C) Personification
D) Simile
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14. Click on the literary device that corresponds to the example. The correct answer will turn red.
The moonlight danced over the water while the
warm summer breeze hugged her shoulders.
A) Metaphor
B) Analogy
C) Personification
D) Simile
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15. Which literary device(s) are shown in the passage below? Once you decide, click on the question
mark to see the correct answer.
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
--Romeo & Juliet
Metaphor &
Personification
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16. Which literary device(s) are shown in the passage below? Once you click on an answer, the
correct answer will turn red.
Throughout The Perks of Being a Wallflower,
Charlie mentions his special relationship with his aunt and
alludes to something bad that happened to her. This is an
example of…
Foreshadowing
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17. Which literary device(s) are shown in the passage below? Once you click on an answer, the
correct answer will turn red.
The Ents in The Lord of the Rings are tree-like beings that
walk, speak, and think. Ents are an example of…
Personification
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18. Which literary device(s) are shown in the passage below? Once you click on an answer, the
correct answer will turn red.
The yellow wallpaper that torments the woman in The
Yellow Wallpaper is a ____________ for her melancholy
and oppression.
Metaphor
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19. Which literary device(s) are shown in the passage below? Once you click on an answer, the
correct answer will turn red.
The title Jumping Off Swings is a(n) __________ for
growing up in general.
Analogy
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