Question

directions: label the quotations below with the correct literary device. you may use some terms more than once.

1. \theyre caesars praetorian guard.\ p.82
2. \how like trying to put out fires with water pistols.\ p.106
3. \how many copies of shakespeare and plato?\ p.72
4. \she started her own slow process of dispersing the dynamite in her house\ p.98
5. \words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.\ p.102
6. the televisor is real. it must be right. it seems so right.\ p.80
7. \the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority.\ p.104
8. \the images drained away, as if the water had been let from a gigantic bowl of hysterical fish.\ p.90

a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. allusion
e. hyperbole
f. verbal irony

Explanation:

1. References Caesar's historical praetorian guard, a literary reference to a real historical group.
2. Uses "like" to compare a task to an ineffective action.
3. References famous authors Shakespeare and Plato, well-known cultural/intellectual figures.
4. Exaggerates intense, pent-up feelings as "dynamite" for dramatic effect.
5. Uses "like" to compare words to leaves.
6. The statement presents blind trust in a television, which is ironic given the medium's potential for misinformation.
7. Compares the majority to "cattle" directly, without a comparative word.
8. Uses "as if" to compare fading images to water draining from a fish bowl.

Answer:

1. D. allusion
2. A. simile
3. D. allusion
4. E. hyperbole
5. A. simile
6. F. verbal irony
7. B. metaphor
8. A. simile