Question

Read the poem “The Eagle: A Fragment” by Alfred Lord Tennyson and answer the question that follows.   He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.   The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.   Which type of figurative language is used in line 4, which is underlined? A. simile B. metaphor C. synecdoche D. personification

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Metaphor I think

Answer 3

Descriptive language that creates word pictures for the reader is known as __________.
A.
simile
B.
imagery
C.
metonymy
D.
personification

Answer 4

B. imagery

Answer 5

Read the excerpt from the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll and answer the following question.

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

Based on how the sword is used later on in the poem, "vorpal" most likely means __________.
A.
deadly
B.
short
C.
valuable
D.
beautiful

Answer 6

Possibly A.

Answer 7

__________ is a type of figurative language that gives human qualities to nonhuman things.
A.
Simile
B.
Imagery
C.
Metonymy
D.
Personification

Answer 8

D. Personification

Answer 9

Read the following sentence and determine which type of figurative language is being used.

"I promise you that this will be the final war—the war to end all wars."
—WOODROW WILSON, U.S. PRESIDENT (1913-21).
A.
simile
B.
hyperbole
C.
metonymy
D.
synecdoche

Answer 10

I'd go with B. hyperbole

Answer 11

Read the first stanza of the “Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key and answer the question that follows.

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly* streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

*gallantly: boldly, bravely, nobly
Which type of sensory imagery is being used?

A.
sight
B.
taste
C.
smell
D.
touch