SHORT STORY Essential Terms used in Literary Quotations
Read each reading passage (or prompt), and choose the
best example.
"In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the
people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn
fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired
children, sugar fluff crystals. salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice
cream and wooden sticks of lollipops." --
This section of this text from "Charlotte's Web" is an example of...
Personification
Imagery
Metaphor
Irony

Will give choose the best answer for the question. review the detail: in “boy flying,” the speaker describes the river as being “ like the silver track / left by the snail.” which best identifies and interprets the meaning of the figurative language in this line? a: it’s a simile; the river runs in a sleek, thin line along the ground. b: it’s a hyperbole; the river is slimy c: it’s a metaphor; the river is tiny. d: it’s personification; the river smells like snails

Read the excerpt from "the most dangerous game." again rainsford lifted the heavy knocker, and let it fall. the door opened then, opened as suddenly as if it were on a spring, and rainsford stood blinking in the river of glaring gold light that poured out. the first thing rainsford's eyes discerned was the largest man rainsford had ever seen—a gigantic creature, solidly made and black bearded to the waist. in his hand the man held a long-barreled revolver, and he was pointing it straight at rainsford's heart. the details of this excerpt show that rainsford sees ivan as a(n) individual.

In romeo and juliet, who are romeos parents