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Explore the intriguing passage from ".FCAT.Games.Presents.The.First.Door" featuring a vividly described, perfectly round green door with a shiny yellow brass knob. This study guide will help you identify the literary devices used, including personification, hyperbole, simile, and metaphor. Sharpen your analytical skills by examining how these devices enhance the text, set the author's tone, and support its themes. Perfect for students looking to deepen their understanding of descriptive and figurative language in literature.
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Read the excerpt from the passage: It had a perfectly round doorlike a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle.
Which type of literary device is used in the sentence above? • a. Personification, giving human • qualities to the door. • b. Hyperbole, exaggerating • the size of the door. • c. Simile, comparing the door to • a porthole. • d. Metaphor, representing • the door as a brass knob.
Benchmark LA. 6.2.1.7 • The student will locate and • analyze an author’s use of illusions and descriptive, idiomatic, and figurative language in a variety of texts, identifying how word choice sets the author’s tone and • advances the • work’s theme.