1.

What type of literary device is the following statement?
What relationship is inferred?

Air pollution has increased the asthma rate in monkeys.
Monkeys and humans have 99% of the same DNA.

• Metaphor – Therefore air pollution will also decrease the asthma rate in humans
• Analogy – Therefore air pollution will also increase the asthma rate in humans
• Simile – therefore air pollution will also increase the asthma rate in humans
• All of the Above

2.

What type of literary device is the following statement? Why?

“I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.”

• Paradox - because opposite conditions produce the same emotion
• Metaphor – because you cannot be miserable by yourself
• Paradox – because you can be miserable and happy at the same time
• None of the Above

3.

What type of literary device is the following statement? What relationship is inferred?

“The venom from a bee can cause an allergic reaction that leads to death in humans. Wasps are similar to bees.”

• Metaphor - Wasps have a stinger and venom
• Simile - Wasps can make honey
• Analogy - Wasps can cause an allergic reaction that leads to death in humans
• All of the Above

4.

Is the following story a fable or parable? What is the moral?

"A boy of a very simple and trusting nature tagged along with Tom Sawyer and his gang when the group decided all of a sudden to raid a field full of plump, juicy watermelons. But the party ended dismally with all the boys getting entangled in a net the farmer had set as a trap. The innocent boy begged the Farmer to spare him. "You may be a very good boy," answered the Farmer, "but I caught you with that thieving gang and you will have to share the same punishment with them."

• Fable - Crime does not pay
• Parable - You are judged by the company you keep
• Parable - Your sins will find you out
• None of the Above

5.

What type of literary device is the following statement? Why?

“A library should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.” Socrates

• Metaphor – because the phrase uses a figure of speech to tie one idea to another
• Simile - because a comparison is made between two unlike things, using like or as
• Analogy – because a logical comparison is made between two unlike things
• Paradox – because two mutually exclusive events our occurring together

6.

What type of literary device is the following statement? What relationship is inferred?

“Fire tests the quality of gold, in the same way that temptation tests the honesty of a righteous man.”

• Metaphor - No one can go through life without trials and tribulations
• Parable - You cannot find out what you are made of without trials and tribulations
• Analogy - Temptation reveals our integrity the way an inferno challenges gold’s purity
• All of the Above

7.

What type of literary device is the following statement? Why?

“I walked along the beach and listened to the ocean. My sadness was as unending as the waves.”

• Metaphor – because the phrase uses a figure of speech to tie one idea to another
• Simile - because a comparison is made between two unlike things, using like or as
• Analogy – because a logical comparison is made between two unlike things
• Paradox – because two mutually exclusive events our occurring together

8.

What type of literary device is the following statement? Why?

“In American history there are no permanent enemies only permanent issues which is why today’s most wanted terrorist are often yesterday’s most celebrated freedom fighter.”

• Paradox - because the same individuals create the opposite effect
• Metaphor – because the same individuals become an essay in unintended consequences
• Simile – because the same individuals become an essay in unintended consequences
• None of the Above

9.

What type of literary device is Invictus? What philosophy of causation does it promote?

It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

Invictus by William Ernest Henley (1875)

• Parable – Determinism
• Allegory – Freewill
• Poetry – Freewill
• None of the Above

10.

What type of literary device is the phrase below? What philosophical dilemma does it address?

“The Ultimate Mystery – The events of our lives are either the result of conflicting actions based on the freedom of choice of all the individuals in the cosmos or a continuum of planned deliberate actions by an all-powerful, all-knowing Supreme Being.”

• Metaphor – rights of the individual versus the needs of society
• Analogy – freewill versus determinism
• Allegory – freedom of choice versus government control
• None of the Above