Q.1
'Gregor's eyes turned next to the window, and the overcast sky - one could hear raindrops beating on the window gutter - made him quite melancholy.' - What sensory imagery does Franz Kafka use in this passage from his short story, 'The Metamorphosis'?
  • Sound and taste
  • Sight and touch
  • Taste and touch
  • Sight and sound
Q.2
'No doubt I now grew pale; - but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased - and what could I do? It was . I gasped for breath - and yet the officers heard it not.' - What imagery does Edgar Allen Poe use in this extract from his short story, 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
  • Auditory (sound) imagery and a metaphor
  • Auditory (sound) imagery and a simile
  • Visual (sight) imagery and a metaphor
  • Visual (sight) imagery and a simile
Q.3
As well as using images drawn from the five senses, imagery also includes figurative language (language which is not restricted to its literal sense). Which of the following is NOT an example of figurative language?
  • Metaphor
  • Narrative
  • Simile
  • Personification
Q.4
'He was not interested in the snow. When he got off the freight, one early evening during the depression, Sargeant never even noticed the snow. But he must have felt it seeping down his neck, cold, wet, sopping in his shoes.' - What imagery does Langston Hughes use in this excerpt from his short story, 'On the Road'?
  • Visual imagery and a simile
  • Auditory imagery and a metaphor
  • A simile and a metaphor
  • Tactile (touch) imagery and onomatopoeia
Q.5
'The world is charged with the grandeur of God, / It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; / It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil / Crushed.' - What imagery has Gerard Manley Hopkins used in his poem, 'God's Grandeur'?
  • Visual imagery, metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia
  • Auditory imagery, simile, onomatopoeia
  • Tactile imagery, simile, metaphor
  • Visual imagery, alliteration
Q.6
'Ooze' and 'crushed' are examples of ...
  • metaphor
  • alliteration
  • onomatopoeia
  • personification
Q.7
'The Palace Hotel at Fort Romper was painted a light blue, a shade that is on the legs of a kind of heron, causing the bird to declare its position against any background. The Palace Hotel, then, was always screaming and howling in a way that made the dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska seem only a gray swampish hush.' - What sensory imagery does this passage from Stephen Crane's short story, 'The Blue Hotel', use?
  • Smell and sound
  • Sight and touch
  • Sight and sound
  • Sound and touch
Q.8
The passage above contains further examples of the use of imagery. What are they?
  • Alliteration
  • Personification
  • Onomatopoeia
  • All of the above
Q.9
'The floor boards have a sour breath / Cadaver lips apart, / The ribbed planks, furred with dust / Smell like a beast in the zoo.' - What imagery has Louis Grudin used in his poem, 'Dust on Spring Street'?
  • Tactile imagery and a metaphor
  • Visual and auditory imagery
  • Auditory imagery and a simile
  • Visual and olfactory (smell) imagery, personification
Q.10
The use of the phrases 'sour breath', 'cadaver lips', 'ribbed' and 'furred' are examples of ...
  • simile
  • personification
  • alliteration
  • All of the above
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