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Howes/Wurm Exam Rev.

QuestionAnswer
While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads Personification
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below Imagery
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer Alliteration
He had a broad face and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly Simile
"Now dash away! dash away! dash away all! Repetition
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!" Dialogue
What strings are to a guitar, love is lo life Analogy
There are more fish in the sea Analogy
The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their decent to the ground Imagery
"You're not really going to wear that, are you?" Rhetorical Question
"You don't expect me to go along with that crazy scheme, do you?" Rhetorical Question
Her brain is the size of a pea. Hyperbole
You snore louder than a freight train. Hyperbole
One of the identical twins says to the other, "You're ugly!" Irony
Before the play begins, the reader knows that Romeo and Juliet die at the end of the play, but the characters do not know Dramatic Irony
John is a real pig when he eats Metaphor
He is my East and my West, my compass Metaphor
Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground Assonance
The crumbling thunder of seas Assonance
Awfully nice Oxymoron
Found missing Oxymoron
My son swooshed the basketball into the net Onomatopoeia
Grandma loves to hear the pitter-patter of little feet around the house Onomatopoeia
The penguin in The Little Mermaid said, "I know fences make good neighbors." Allusion
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