Fill-in Quiz: Figurative Language 2
Short-answer questions on symbol and allegory.
ENGLISH 12AP: Literature and Composition
Quiz - Figurative Language (2)
Name
Date Per.
Mr. Reed
1.What literary device may be defined as “something theat means more than what it is”?
2.What literary device may be defined as “a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface”?
3.Consider your answers to 1 and 2. From which literary device may meanings “ray out”?
4.Consider your answers to 1 and 2. Which places less emphasis on the images for their own sake and more on their ulterior meanings?
5.Which may be interpreted in virtually any way the reader chooses without any limits whatsoever?
6.What other two poetic figures shade into symbol and are sometimes difficult to distinguish? [Use
7.blanks 6 & 7.]
8.Consider the two answers you gave for 6 and 7 in addition to symbol. Which is represented by the following example: “The shaggy brown dog was rubbing its back against a white picket fence”?
9.Which is represented by the following example: “Some dirty dog stole my wallet at the party”?
10.Which is represented by the following example: “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”?