ELA Regents Exam Review Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
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What literary technique is illustrated in this passage?
"When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country. Mr. Dursley hummed as...
ELA Regents Exam Review Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2024)
What literary technique is illustrated in this passage?
"When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray
Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy
sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things
would soon be happening all over the country. Mr. Dursley
hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work, and
Mrs. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a
screaming Dudley into his high chair.
None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the
window. At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his
briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and
tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley
was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the
walls. " - Correct Answer ✅Setting
What literary technique is illustrated in this passage?
" In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a
stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women.
The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the
stairwells stank of moldering wood and rat droppings, the
, ELA Regents Exam Review Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2024)
kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired
parlors stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets,
damp featherbeds, and the pungently sweet aroma of
chamber pots. The stench of sulfur rose from the chimneys,
the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from the
slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood. People
stank of sweat and unwashed clothes; from their mouths
came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies that of
onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very
young, came the stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and
tumorous disease." - Correct Answer ✅Imagery (the sense
of smell)
What literary technique is illustrated in this passage?
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking
thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an
effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the
glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to
prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats." -
Correct Answer ✅Imagery (the sense of smell and sight)
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