Analysis Quiz #2
Directions: Click on the passage to find the answer. Your choices are provided below.
- My
infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit
than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
- He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow,—a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness.
- Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard.
- I got up and went down stairs; every board upon the way, and every crack in every board calling after me, "Stop thief!" and "Get up, Mrs. Joe!"
- I knew that at the first faint dawn of morning I must rob the pantry.
- Long after these constitutional powers had dispersed, my sister lay very ill in bed.
- We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
- The skylight, eccentrically pitched like a broken head, and the distorted adjoining houses looking as if they had twisted themselves to peep down at me through it.
Answer Choices
- alliteration
- metonymy
- allusion
- perosnification
- metaphor
- epistrophe
- polysyndeton
- simile