1. "The beat--in Harlem in the summertime one could almost see it, shaking above the pavements and the roof." This passage is an example of:
a. Hyperbole
b. Synethesia
c. Personification
d. Zeitgeist
2. "If the world wasn't so full of dead folks maybe those of us that's trying to live wouldn't have to suffer so bad." What literary element is present in this passage?
a. Paradox
b. Allusion
c. Apostrophe
d. Hyperbaton
3. "the teeth of the world are sharp." This excerpt from Another Country is an example of:
a. Personification
b. Metaphor
c. Metonymy
d. Chiasmus
4. What literary element is present in the following sentence: "Tum-ta-tum, tum-ta-tum, tum-ta-tum, tum-ta-tum! went the music."
a. Simile
b. Onomanopia
c. Epizeuxis
d. Induction
5. "(as though her mind, for a moment, were a clear pool, and she saw straight down into its depths).." This excerpt is an example of:
a. Oxymoron
b. Allusion
c. Zeugma
d. Metaphor
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