Question

1.In poetic figures of speech, a direct comparison is _____.
hyperbole
-->metaphor
irony
symbol

2.A word picture that always has a concrete reference in the real world is _____.
-->image
personification
realism
simile

3.The first person to use the historical method of dictionary research was _____.
Noah Webster
-->Samuel Johnson
Benjamin Franklin
Wilbur Wright

4.A student researching the etymological development of a word would find the _____ to be most helpful.
-->Oxford English Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus
Dictionary of American Slang
The Shorter Oxford Dictionary

Answer 1

5.One of the most famous symbols in American literature is found in _____.

Pilgrim's Progress
Everyman
-->The Scarlet Letter
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Answer 2

@geneticrockhopper247

Answer 3

1 should be correct

Answer 4

correct on 2, I believe

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure that 3 is right

Answer 6

4 is right

Answer 7

what about 5?

Answer 8

The scarlet letter is probably correct for 5, let me check

Answer 9

I was tempted to say the pilgrim's progress, but that is british lit. I can't think of any massively prominent symbols in Uncle Tom's Cabin, and I haven't read everyman, so I'd say that, on an educated guess, the scarlet letter is probably correct.

Answer 10

thank you:)

Answer 11

no problem