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Related Benchmark: LA.6.2.1.7
Reporting Category: Literary Analysis
Type: MC: Multiple Choice
Difficulty: N/A
Question:
The sample item below is based on NewKid.pdf
Read the sentence from the passage.The only sound in the room was the plink plunk of the ball as it bounced from court to court.
Which type of literary device is used in the italicized words of the sentence above?
Answer Options:
A. personification, giving human qualities to the ball
B. hyperbole, exaggerating the distance the ball travels
C. imagery, using words to portray vivid images of the ball
D. onomatopoeia, using words that imitate the sounds of the ball
B. hyperbole, exaggerating the distance the ball travels
C. imagery, using words to portray vivid images of the ball
D. onomatopoeia, using words that imitate the sounds of the ball
Answer Key:
D
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